Gerry Adams, president of the staunchly pro-Irish Sinn Fein party, called on the Irish Republican Army to being disarming in an effort to save the teetering Northern Ireland Assembly. The following is the full text of his speech.

The Northern Ireland Assembly, the first democratically elected representative body in the 80-year history of the region, faces an array of obstacles as it struggles to bring a political peace to decades of violence.

By PBS News Hour