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Northern Ireland’s political leaders will accommodate up to 2,000 Syrian refugees in the region not because they are required to, but because they want to, Sinn Féin’s Martin McGuinness has said.

The North’s First Minister and DUP leader Peter Robinson says the independent assessment will be able to question all agencies about paramilitary organisations.

Mr Robinson’s tactic, which has prevented an early move towards fresh elections, came after parties rejected a DUP proposal to adjourn the Assembly.

Mr Robinson, 66, was taken to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast on Saturday.

It will be published by mid-October to inform the five main parties’ discussions and conclusions of the multiparty talks, she added.

Meanwhile, British Prime Minister David Cameron said he was “gravely concerned” about the situation in the North yesterday.

But if talks are not going to take place and if talks do take place and there is no successful outcome then, in my view, the next logical step is to an election, and that is my very firm and strong view.