THE Irish Republican Socialist Party, the INLA's political wing, is claiming that the Government has ended talks with the movement because it refused to make a submission to the international arms body.
Mr Kevin McQuillan said his party had been engaged in discussions with Government officials since August. They had ended after the IRSP refused to meet the Mitchell commission last month.
The party said to co operate with the body would be to endorse the peace process, and it questioned the right of"representatives of the US, the most heavily militarised state in the world", to head a commission on disarmament.
The INLA, whose leader Gino Gallagher was shot dead in west Belfast last week, has engaged in a tactical suspension of violence for the past 19 months, but has refused to call a permanent ceasefire. It has been extremely critical of the peace process.
Mr McQuillan yesterday said it was hypocritical of the Taoiseach, Mr Bruton, and the Tanaiste, Mr Spring, to support all party talks vet refuse to speak to the IRSP.
"Irrespective of the way in which the Irish Government felt about our decision not to meet the commission, to totally end dialogue with us defies reason," he said.
Meanwhile, the Workers' Party met the Northern Secretary, Sir Patrick Mayhew at Stormont Castle in Belfast yesterday. Today it is meeting the Alliance Party and the Ulster Democratic Party, the UDA's political wing.
The party's Northern chairman, Mr Tom French, said it was anxious to maintain the momentum towards all party negotiations.