The "price tag" for Sinn Fein's Downing Street meeting is the acceptance of British rule in a reformed Stormont, according to the president of Republican Sinn Fein, Mr Ruairi O Bradaigh.
Calling the meeting between Mr Tony Blair and Mr Gerry Adams a "photo opportunity" designed to boost the current political process in nationalist eyes, O Bradaigh he said "those playing Britain's game will have to enforce the outcome of the Stormont talks on other nationalists by taking part in a new British-controlled police force.
"It is Gerry Adams, not Tony Blair, who has moved fundamentally away from first principles . . . The Provisionals are being absorbed into the system and in the process are helping to update and strengthen British rule in Ireland rather than weaken it."