Northern Ireland Secretary Mr Paul Murphy will today meet Sinn Féin leaders in the wake of yesterday's IRA announcement that it was severing contact with the decommissioning body.
The chairman of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD), Gen John de Chastelain, said last night that he was "disappointed" by the IRA decision and hoped the suspension would be of a "short duration".
As they prepared for today's meeting with Mr Murphy, Sinn Féin chief negotiator Mr Martin McGuinness said there needed to be concentration from the British and Irish governments on the restoration of the devolved administration.
"The Irish and British governments should jointly convene a series of meetings with all political parties to address, with an urgency which has been absent so far, the crisis created by the British decision to suspend the political institutions," he said.
"The Agreement must be implemented in full and in all its aspects. The British government has said repeatedly in recent weeks that they will implement the Agreement. We need to see their implementation plan and see that commitment acted upon".
Mr Murphy will later meet Mr David Ford of the Alliance Party in London and Mr David Ervine of the Progressive Unionist Party in Belfast.
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