THE UUP leader, Mr David Trimble, has called on the President, Mrs Robinson, to stop visiting Northern Ireland unless she is prepared to adhere to "the proper protocol".
In an interview to be broadcast tonight on the BBC Northern Ireland television programme, Spotlight, Mr Trimble says: "One would not have regarded her as being someone who is aggressively trying to promote a republican agenda, but yet, that's what her visits are actually doing."
Mrs Robinson is believed to have visited the North 16 times since becoming President, and the Northern Ireland Office has said that her visits have been private.
Mr Trimble asserts, however, that she was travelling to the North in her official capacity as President without the proper protocol of being met by Queen Elizabeth's representative.
He says: "To come in this ambiguous manner, where it can be interpreted as representing Articles 2 and 3 being thrust down people's throats, is not welcome. If she cannot follow the normal courtesies toward Her Majesty, then she's better not coming.
In September Mrs Robinson was given a hostile reception by loyalists when she visited the Windsor Women's Centre in the Village area of south Belfast. The centre has been attacked several times since. The President has said several times she regretted the controversy and stressed that she has no political agenda in visiting Northern Ireland but simply wished to convey friendship.