And to the extent that we are moving, in some degree, in a power sharing mode.
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Egged on by the U.S. and Britain, Bhutto and Pakistan's military ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, have been negotiating a power sharing deal.
Meanwhile, in London, Jenny Randerson, the Liberal Democrat Culture Minister in the Welsh Assembly's coalition administration will talk of the success of power sharing governments.
MCI's current chief executive, Michael Capellas, must relinquish his role as board chairman to an outside director, a power sharing that remains deeply unpopular with American bosses.
The UN Secretary General's Special Representative Bernard Kouchner was hoping to include Serbs in a new power sharing structure that will help run Kosovo until elections next autumn.
And, of course, Benazir Bhutto, with whom Musharraf has been exploring a power sharing deal, is being highly critical, not least at the possibility of a state of emergency.
Sinn Fein and the SDLP have concerns that any changes to the political system at Stormont could undermine the principles of inclusion and power sharing contained in the Good Friday Agreement.
That will require a change in the county's constitution and her adviser, Wajid Shamsul Hasan, indicated that a power sharing deal with Musharraf that would allow that change is in place.
But the programme reveals that in the weeks leading up to and during the two-week strike - which brought the power sharing Executive down - Mr Wilson was working on his secret plan.
We're hearing that both sides, the negotiators for President Mwai Kibaki and those for Raila Odinga are finessing, if I can put it that way, a political deal that will include power sharing.
And Labour's unpopularity gives the Liberal Democrats an even stronger motive for avoiding power-sharing: they may be able to seize power themselves.
The idea had been that power-sharing in Belfast would be a stepping-stone to power in Dublin, by making Sinn Fein an acceptable partner in a coalition government.
The "no" campaign argued that plans for mandatory coalition, enforced power-sharing with nationalists, was anti-democratic.
The ex-rebels in government say this would violate the power-sharing accords that ended the war.
The short-lived power-sharing executive was suspended in February during the dispute over IRA decommissioning.
Northern Ireland's power-sharing institutions were suspended on 14 October following allegations of continuing IRA activity.
In Northern Ireland, previous efforts toward power-sharing agreements between more moderate politicians have failed.
However, the agreement still requires the formal approval of the power-sharing Northern Ireland executive.
The two parties formed a power-sharing government in 2009, following elections marred by violence.
They said the assembly should concentrate purely on the formation of a power-sharing executive.
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America is trying to bolster it by coaxing Mr Sharif into a power-sharing agreement.
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Most of his own followers, including those in his church, hate the idea of power-sharing.
After that, the chances of getting the power-sharing pact through Parliament all but evaporated.
Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto has been negotiating a power-sharing deal with Musharraf.
Seamus Mallon, deputy first minister of Northern Ireland's newly-constituted power-sharing government, said he believed decommissioning would happen.
More lately when a power-sharing government was formed at Stormont, he was Sinn Fein's head of administration.
In Northern Ireland, former enemies on opposite sides of the political spectrum launched a new power-sharing government.
The two later entered into a power-sharing agreement, with Odinga named prime minister and Kibaki named president.
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