LEON HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: There is an emerging controversy with another coalition government in the world: The fragile coalition government in Northern Ireland is in danger of collapsing because the Irish Republican Army has not begun to disarm. The crisis has prompted an emergency summit between the prime ministers of England and Ireland. CNN's Nic Robertson is in Belfast, Northern Ireland this morning. He updates us on what's going on there -- Nic.</s>NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well the British prime minister, Tony Blair, has call this current situation a crisis, a big problem that he is facing right now. Now, this meeting, if it happens as expected later today between him and the Irish prime minister, Bertie Ahern, will be the first time these two prime ministers have met since the very negative report on disarming here in Northern Ireland was delivered to them earlier this week. Now, it's not known what position the two governments want to take on this, but it is expected that later today they will make an announcement through the British government on what they will do with the new power-sharing government. The Protestant politicians here say, because the IRA hasn't handed in their weapons, that they want this new power-sharing assembly closed down. The IRA, in a statement earlier this week, only pointed to the fact that its guns have been silent. It hasn't held out, even at this last minute, any hope of guns being handed in. So at this time, it is expected later today after the meeting between the two Prime Ministers, that to the British government, the secretary of state for Northern Ireland will deliver his address, and it is expected largely here to say that this assembly, this new power- sharing assembly that's only been in place for two months, will be suspended. I'm Nic Robertson, reporting live from Belfast.</s>HARRIS: All right, thank you, Nic.
Threat of Northern Ireland Coalition Government Collapse Prompts Emergency Summit Between British, Irish Prime Ministers