Gerry Adams Calls on two governments to honour commitments
Addressing his party's Ard Fhéis in Dublin, Mr Adams said that the British and Irish Governments must also deliver on their commitments, and take risks for peace.
This weekend's Ard Fhéis has seen plenty of criticism of the authorities in Dublin and London, and Gerry Adams continued the theme.
Describing the current state of the peace process as 'our greatest crisis', he said the core difficulty was that London had only proceeded at the pace which unionism was prepared to tolerate.
But he said he stood over the commitments he made last October, when the last act of IRA decommissioning was not enough to persuade David Trimble to return to Government.
If the two Governments applied themselves to acts of completion, he said, then others would do likewise - a reference to the IRA setting aside arms.
In particular, he called on the Government in Dublin to fulfil its commitments on the status of the Irish language, release of prisoners, and granting Northerners representation in the Oireachtas.
Dismissing recent attacks on the party as 'the old propaganda nonsense of the past', Mr Adams said they were prompted by the fact that Sinn Féin was attracting increased support.
He urged Fianna Fáil not to be part of what he called the short-sighted, anti-republican agenda advanced by Justice Minister Michael McDowell.
He said next June's European and local elections were important, but they were not more important than the peace process.
