UUP motion has made decommissioning more difficult - Adams

Sinn Fein president Gerry Adams has warned that the Ulster Unionists' attempt to have his party expelled from the Northern Assembly will hamper IRA decommissioning.

"If you ask me what are the possibilities of getting the IRA to put weapons beyond use, I can only say that task has been made much more difficult," he said.

Mr Adams also warned that the North's political institutions will collapse if UUP leader David Trimble progresses with his plans to withdraw all his ministers from the Assembly.