The Sinn Fein President Mr Gerry Adams insisted IRA disarmament had not been the reason why three days of talks at Leeds Castle in Kent failed to reach an agreement.
And he hit out at the DUP for refusing to make any sort of compromise. "The IRA is not the problem,"
Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams answers questions from journalists outside Leeds Castle after
the West Belfast MP said.
"It's an unwillingness of elements of political unionism to embrace a process of change. How can any party expect to come to negotiations and not negotiate, and not talk to other parties?"
The Sinn Fein chief also claimed the British government had finally agreed to end delays over setting up an inquiry into the murder of Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
Loyalist killers who shot the lawyer were aided by police and military intelligence, according to two major inquiries.
Mr Adams added: "On Thursday we were given a written note saying they were going to have an inquiry into the killing of Pat Finucane."