Sinn Féin called yesterday on the British and Irish governments to press ahead with the implementation of outstanding aspects of the Good Friday agreement.
The party's chairman, Mr Mitchel McLaughlin, said that London and Dublin had been due to announce the immediate activation of their Joint Declaration on full implementation as their part of the October 21st deal to re-activate the peace process.
It was not acceptable for the governments to back away from their part in the deal simply because the Ulster Unionists had brought it down by refusing to accept Gen John de Chastelain's report on IRA decommissioning, he said.
Sinn Féin also called for the Government to be given a more formal role in the implementation of the agreement, so that no future suspensions of the Assembly and Executive or postponement of elections could take place without Dublin's agreement.
Anti-agreement unionists should not be given the "soft option" of allowing direct rule from Westminster to continue following the November 26th elections to the Assembly, he said.
During a visit to London, Mr McLaughlin stated: "Sinn Féin is demanding that the Joint Declaration which deals with Good Friday agreement issues that the two governments recognise have yet to be delivered should proceed immediately.
"Such actions would honour the British and Irish governments' commitments in the sequencing and agreement of last week.
"In the event of unionist obstruction of the implementation and formation of an Executive following the elections, the Irish Government must be given a more formal role in the implementation of all of the outstanding issues for full implementation of the agreement."
A formal say for the Government would reassure nationalists that they were being treated equally, while preventing unionists from bringing about a return to direct rule whenever difficulties arise in the devolved institutions.
The Joint Declaration published in May set out a process for implementation of the Good Friday agreement's provisions on a series of key issues like political institutions, demilitarisation, policing and equality.
"It is unacceptable that the only aspect of the Joint Declaration to be actioned to date is the international monitoring commission, which is outside of the terms of the agreement."
But Mr McLaughlin stressed that Sinn Féin remained committed to dialogue with the UUP and said he was confident that the devolved institutions would eventually come out of suspension.
Sinn Féin called for the creation of nine new implementation bodies, to cover justice, policing, social economy, energy, rural development, pollution control, mental health, communications and higher and further education.