Following a meeting with the four-member Independent Monitoring Commission in Belfast today DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley said the IRA had to disband and Sinn Fein endorse the PSNI before his party would consider reviving power sharing.
He confirmed the party had already begun taking soundings from grassroots members on their views on the political climate in Northern Ireland.
Dr Paisley also insisted the commission needed to be more specific about IRA activities than in their last report.
This included examining the role of the IRA in the murder in April of former Sinn Fein head of administration Denis Donaldson near Glenties, Co Donegal.
"It is important that in their next release the findings they give are crystal clear and are not subject to any spin which the government can put on it," Mr Paisley said.
"It seems to us that when they bring out a report ,the media in reporting it gives more emphasis to the comments of the Government and their interpretation than what is in the report.
"The next report we have presented should be a very full report indeed - not just making statements like they did in the last report about the IRA leadership appearing to have withdrawn from terrorism, and nothing about the murder of Donaldson."
Mr Paisley added that the IMC could also not ignore the House of Commons Northern Ireland Affairs Committee's report on organised crime and paramilitary involvement.
The IMC will publish a crucial report on paramilitary activity next month which Prime Minister Tony Blair and Irish Taoiseach Bertie Ahern hope will provide a positive backdrop to talks planned for St Andrews in Scotland on October 11th.
The DUP will draw from a wider range of sources than Northern Ireland's ceasefire watchdog before making any decision on reviving power sharing, senior members insisted today.
After meeting the four-member Independent Monitoring Commission in Belfast, DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley confirmed the party had already begun taking soundings from grassroots members on their views on the political climate in Northern Ireland.
"That programme (of internal consultation) is already in existence," he said. "We are already moving. We are taking soundings."
DUP deputy leader Peter Robinson added: "Our party always consults internally and always has in mind the people who know most on the ground.
"They give us feedback. It's a two-way process. We pass information to them and it also comes back from the grassroots organisation.