David Trimble
DUP agm takes place today
David Trimble has been unanimously re-elected as leader of the Ulster Unionist party at the party's annual general meeting in Belfast.
Mr Trimble told the meeting that the Assembly would not be restored unless republicans acted. He said their acts must start with proper open decommissioning and continue with saying the war is over and ensuring that it would not start again.
'The IRA does have to go away,' he added.
Mr Trimble told delegates that the people of Northern Ireland wanted stability and peace.
But he added that without republicans changing, acknowledging that they got it so dreadfully wrong, making amends, in deeds if not words, the future was bleak.
Mr Trimble later told a news conference the onus was on the IRA to decommission and 'go away'.
