No agreement has been reached in the negotiation between Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party, or DUP and its rival Sinn Fein, to resume peace talks.

DUP leader Ian Paisley said on Wednesday it is the reluctance of Irish Republican Army, the largest paramilitary groups of Sinn Fein, to decommission its illegal arsenal that makes the negotiation a futile one.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair is calling on both parties to make more effort to resume peace talks in Northern Ireland since the groups have reached agreements on most issues, except the transparency of IRA's disarmament.

The talks on the peace process of Northern Ireland stalled in 2002 and hopes of an agreement to restore the power-sharing government have faded as IRA rejected DUP calls for photographic evidence of its disarmament.

Source: CRI news