The Irish andBritish governments were urged today to consider bringing in a mediator between the North's parties to try and end the peace process deadlock.
Pro-Belfast Agreement parties criticised the talks this week in Weston Park on the Shropshire-Staffordshire border, claiming they were badly designed.
Women's Coalition Assembly member Ms Monica McWilliams, whose party has been invited back to Weston Park when the talks resume tomorrow, pressed for a new talks format to resolve the current stalemate over decommissioning, police reform, demilitarisation and the operation of the institutions.
"This process was originally designed to be a multi-party affair," the South Belfast MLA said. "What we have got since the Agreement is a series of summits which has created emergencies and seen formulas imposed at every meeting."
"They should considering bringing in an outside mediator - an organisation like the Mediation Network - so we can work on a memorandum of understanding and towards the implementation of the Agreement," she said. "We need something new because clearly the talks, as they are, are not working."
It is understood the pro-Agreement parties have been asked to send teams of five to the Weston Park tomorrow and that the governments are not ruling out the possibility that the talks could run into Saturday.
If they cannot reach agreement, the Northern Ireland parties and both governments will have a four-week countdown to an Assembly vote for a new First and Deputy First Minister following Mr David Trimble's resignation from the executive on July 1st.
Failure to elect a First and Deputy First Minister will force the Northern Ireland Secretary John Reid to either call fresh Assembly elections or suspend it before the vote for a new First and Deputy First Minister.
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