Republican Sinn Féin has rejected an offer by Gerry Adams to have discussions about policing in Northern Ireland.
Republican Sinn Féin President, Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, said Mr Adams knows that no reconciliation is possible between their parties, and accused him of having accepted the institutions of British rule in Ireland.
Earlier, the Sinn Féin President, Gerry Adams, announced an initiative aimed at securing the backing of dissident republicans for the party's plans to endorse the police service.
The issue is due to be addressed at a Sinn Féin Ard-Fheis at the end of this month.
Mr Adams had offered to meet dissident republican leaders in a bid to win their backing for Sinn Féin's plans to endorse the Police Service of Northern Ireland.
The West Belfast MP also urged the Real IRA, Continuity IRA and INLA to end all armed violence, insisting a united Ireland can be achieved peacefully.
With Sinn Féin facing internal tensions and potential splits over its decision to hold a special Ard-Fheis, Mr Adams claims he had no problem with former comrades running against party candidates in elections to the Stormont Assembly in March.
In a message to the dissidents who have issued death threats against him and other senior Sinn Féin representatives, he said he wanted to meet with these organisations to brief them in detail on current developments and impress upon them his belief that the current Sinn Féin strategy is the best way forward for the nationalist community and for the wider republican struggle.
Mr Adams told the dissident republicans still committed to violence that they had no strategy for delivering Irish unity and independence and that they have no popular support and their actions were counter-productive.
