Republican Sinn Féin (RSF) has rejected today's breakthrough in the process by saying the Belfast Agreement "will not work in the long run".
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RSF president, Mr Ruairí Ó Brádaigh
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RSF president Mr Ruairí Ó Brádaigh said the IRA decommissioning had come at "the behest of the British Establishment".
"Surely Mr Adams cannot expect faithful republicans to endorse the ceding and surrender of sovereignty over the Six Counties to the English government," Mr Ó Brádaigh said.
RSF is a hardline, left-wing republican group dedicated to the restoration of a 32-county Ireland. It describes the Republic as a neo-colonial state and the Assembly as a prop to enable the British to hold onto the North.
Mr Ó Brádaigh today urged unionists to consider the party's proposal for a four-province federal model for the governance of Ireland.