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<p>The Foreign Secretary leads on our negotiations with the EU and she has had extensive
exchanges through both informal channels and the structures under the agreement.</p><p>We
will continue to talk with the EU and our preference remains a negotiated outcome
but while the EU discusses their position and their mandate, we will take steps to
solve the problems created by the Protocol and restore the Executive. We are not scrapping
the Protocol - we are protecting the elements that work and fixing those that don’t.
We remain open to discuss any new proposals but we can no longer wait to address the
issues we face now.</p>
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