The British and Irish governments will chair talks in Belfast today on the future of the Belfast Agreement as Sinn Féin continued to criticise a commission that threatened to name senior IRA members.
The review of the agreement was resuming at Stormont as the US special envoy to Northern Ireland arrived for discussions with the Assembly parties.
The envoy, Mr Mitchell Reiss, was expected to hear Sinn Féin concerns about the impact on the peace process of last week's report by the Independent Monitoring Commission (IMC).
The report blamed the Provisional IRA for the beating and attempted abduction of republican Mr Bobby Tohill in a Belfast city centre bar in February.
In a move which angered republicans and loyalists, the IMC recommended that financial penalties be imposed on Sinn Féin and Progressive Unionists Assembly members because of their parties' links to active paramilitary organisations.
London and Dublin recently cancelled plans for intensive talks this week to move the process forward.
SDLP negotiator Séan Farren said today they were pleased that the review was resuming its work and they wanted to "bring back the Good Friday Agreement bigger and better than before".
The North Antrim MLA continued: "The only way of doing it is if the governments and parties knuckle down in the talks. We are determined not to allow North/South be held to ransom again the way that David Trimble did in the last administration."