Haass document needs clear response says Gerry Adams 2 January 2014 Last updated at 11:32 Stormont's parties must be clear in their response to proposals about contentious issues, Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams has said. Sinn Féin's talks team will recommend that its party executive endorses the document when it meets on 11 January. Mr Adams said the other parties "should not fudge their response." He said the British and Irish governments and the parties must "grasp the opportunity that now exists to resolve outstanding issues." Give and take "Sinn Féin would like to have seen some aspects of the proposed agreement strengthened and improved further," he said. More work is required on parity of esteem, equality and respect for all cultures and identities. However agreement on everything was not possible. Negotiation is about give and take; it's about making concessions and accepting that there can be no outright winners. The SDLP is recommending a general endorsement of the proposals, and its members are to discuss the document on Thursday evening. The Ulster Unionist Party's ruling executive is to be briefed by its talks team on Monday. Ulster Unionist leader Mike Nesbitt said the party would "reach a decision on the way forward" at that stage. "However, this was an initiative from Peter Robinson and Martin McGuinness, and it falls to them to outline how they see this process moving forward," he added. Mr Nesbitt said the "major problem with getting the process back on track is that the Alliance Party cherry-picked the final document, something entirely against the spirit of what Dr Haass requested." DUP leader Peter Robinson said on Wednesday that the momentum from the Haass talks should not be lost and he would support Dr Haass's suggestion that a cross-party working group should be created to assess how to move things forward.