Talks aimed at restoring Northern Ireland's power-sharing government have made little progress, Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has said.

The province's political institutions were suspended on 14 October following a row over allegations of IRA activity, including intelligence gathering at Stormont.

Mr Adams told a public meeting in Belfast on Monday his party was committed to the peace process.

However, he said there would only be progress if the British and Irish Governments came forward with an implementation plan for honouring commitments on policing, demilitarisation and other aspects of the Good Friday Agreement.

Gerry Adams was addressing a public meeting in Belfast

Mr Adams said: "So far in our efforts to bring back the institutions there has been no substantive progress.

"And there will not be until the British and Irish Governments come forward with time-framed programmatic implementation plans for those aspects of the Agreement which are their responsibility.

Meanwhile, a number of political parties are to hold talks with the prime minister at Downing Street on Tuesday.

Delegations from the Ulster Unionists, the Progressive Unionist Party and the Alliance Party are due to have separate meetings with Mr Blair.

Speaking ahead of the meeting, the Ulster Unionist Sir Reg Empey said his party would be expressing its frustration at the current political impasse.

Discussions

Last week, multi-party talks at Stormont aimed at restoring devolution were held at Stormont.

The discussions, which included all the pro-Agreement parties were hosted by the Northern Ireland Secretary Paul Murphy and Irish Foreign Minister Brian Cowen.

Following the collapse of power-sharing at Stormont, current legislation dictates that the British and Irish Governments must review the implementation of the Good Friday Agreement on which devolution was based.

But unless some common ground can be found between the parties on how to proceed, there is no mechanism for reinstating Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive.

Both the governments have stressed that there will be no re-negotiation of the Good Friday Agreement.