THE British Irish Inter Parliamentary Body has urged all political parties in Northern Ireland to participate constructively in the talks on June 10th and called for an "unequivocal restoration" of the IRA ceasefire.
The call came in a motion passed with one abstention by British Conservative MP Mr David Wilshire.
Earlier, Mr Wilshire had withdrawn amendments requiring that all participants in talks give their total commitment to the six Mitchell principles minimising the role of the Government and requiring an unequivocally permanent IRA ceasefire.
During the debate, Mr Wilshire said unionists "will not sit down with people who are pointing Armalites at them under the negotiating table".
Participants said impossible conditions must not be imposed on talks.
"All I would say is, that it is imposing an impossible condition upon those talks if you seriously expect the unionist community to negotiate with killers who haven't yet renounced killing."
The unionist majority in Northern Ireland was not a group of misguided Irishmen" who would come to their senses if only the British would go away. "That is not how it is."