The Sinn Féin vice-president Martin McGuinness has urged the Democratic Unionist Party to enter into direct talks with his party.
Yesterday the DUP launched its proposals for returning devolved government to the North.
The party, which is now the largest in the Assembly, said there was no chance of Sinn Féin joining the Stormont Executive unless the IRA gave up its weapons.
Calling on the DUP to engage with republicans, he said 'for decades theyhave denounced successive British governments as treacherous and dishonest. Yet they now want to use the British government as a conduit to Sinn Féin'.
Speaking in Belfast, Mr McGuinness said that while his party would not consider a return to majority rule, the proposals were a shift from what he called 'never never land' politics.
He said the DUP should talk to Sinn Féin face-to-face.
