Leeds Castle, England, Sept 17, SPA -- The prime ministers ofBritain and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, resumedtheir joint efforts Friday to push rival Northern Irelandparties toward a new peace agreement and a revivedCatholic-Protestant administration. The emerging outline of a deal, according to severalnegotiators speaking on condition of anonymity, requiresthe outlawed Irish Republican Army within the next fewweeks to resume disarmament and to issue a new statementthat, for the first time, would definitively renounceviolence.--SPA1345 Local Time 1045 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/202437