UK News 10-08-2001 End Of The Road For Northern Ireland Assembly? who: Ulster Unionist leader, David Trimble what: Says Stormont assembly should be suspended where: BELFAST when: Yesterday snippet: "Tony Blair was last night poised to order the suspension of Ulster`s power-sharing assembly," reports The Mirror, "following the IRA`s failure to destroy arms." "David Trimble, the Ulster Unionist leader whose resignation as First Minister almost six weeks ago provoked the new crisis, had a stormy meeting with John Reid, the Northern Ireland Secretary," reports The Telegraph. Mr Trimble has demanded that the Stormont assembly be suspended until the IRA take substantive action to back up their promise to put waepons "beyond use". The Times backs the hardline from Mr Trimble, who has "twice already taken the republicans on trust on decommissioning, only to find them reneging on their pledges". But Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams, who also met with Dr Reid yesterday, says that dissolving the assembly because of Mr Trimble`s demands effectively means that the price of the Good Friday agreement "is that our rights are to be filtered through unionism". Many nationalists and republicans, he warned, "may think that is too high a price to pay." [... more]

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