Protestants are sorry they ever supported the Belfast Agreement, according to one community worker in Derry. While Ms Jenny Warke, a voluntary youth worker in the Protestant Fountain estate, had not had time to read Wednesday's document from the two governments, but was not optimistic it would satisfy unionists.
"My first reaction is it sounds like appeasement. I am also very concerned as to what will happen to the RUC. The Protestant community I find are really sorry that they even backed the agreement," she said.
"I feel the IRA have to decommission for Protestants to feel any stability at all. Once they decommission we will be on the way forward. But is that going to happen?" she said.
Brian McMenamin, a youth worker in Derry's nationalist Brandywell area, said he hoped politicians would accept it.
"It's crazy the games politicians are playing. Over 70 per cent of the people voted for the Good Friday agreement. I think politicians should accept the document for the good of people in Northern Ireland." The North Belfast Community Development Centre (NBCDC) said it would be inappropriate to comment as it represented both nationalist and unionist groups.
The assistant director, Mr Neil Jarman, however, said political stability was needed if violence was to be reduced at sectarian interfaces. It was significant, he said, that rioting at interfaces was continuing, while previously it had stopped after July 12th.
"Maybe the length of time it has carried on and the level of intensity are linked to the general air of instability and uncertainty," he said.
"I think if we had political stability at the institutional level then we could start to build on that. All the time we are lurching from crisis to crisis."
The NBCDC has tried to calm tensions at sectarian interfaces such as the Whitewell Road and Ardoyne by giving mobile phones to community workers on both sides of the divide.
"The phones allow some form of communication in the middle of a riot. We have been running a network since 1997 and we have phones in up to 25 different areas. The phones provide a permanent line of communication during times of tension." The leader of the Corrymeela community, which works to promote reconciliation, Mr Trevor Williams, said the document would not resolve the underlying problems in the North.
"Clearly the problem still remains: are we willing and able to let each other off the hook? Until we get to that, in terms of understanding each other's problems we will still not be able to make any headway. That is still the missing link."
West Belfast community worker Mr Tom Hannon said it was essential that politicians give the document careful consideration.
Speaking from Cornerstone Ecumenical Community on the Springfield Road, Mr Hannon said he would support any initiative that moved the Belfast Agreement forward.
"We would urge the political parties not to throw this document out out-of-hand. People need to talk to each other. As Nelson Mandela said: `If you want peace you have to talk to your enemy'," he said. Cornerstone Community had been trying to foster good community relations by bringing church congregations together, Mr Hannon said.
"One of our members, Father Gerry Reynolds from Clonard, has organised a pilgrimage from Clonard to the nine churches on the Shankill Road. Congregations from the Shankill then came to a carol service in Clonard last Christmas," he said.