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Ireland’s foreign minister has said that the UK has not made concrete or credible proposals to replace the Irish border backstop in its Brexit deal with the EU, adding that if it has any alternatives, “then let’s hear them.”“There is no country that wants a deal more than Ireland,” Simon Coveney told reporters in Helsinki on Friday. “But that deal has to be based on the Withdrawal Agreement and has to be consistent with that.”London has said UK negotiators will hold twice-weekly talks with the EU next month to rework the agreement, which British MPs have rejected repeatedly, before the country is due to leave the bloc on October 31. Also on rt.comBoris Johnson won’t like going down in history as ‘Mr. No-Deal,’ EU’s Tusk scoffsBritish Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK will leave on that date with or without an agreement in place, and that the issue of the backstop, which will keep an open border between the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland after Brexit, must be remov…