Irish churchmen to witness IRA arms move: report
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Northern Ireland's largest Roman Catholic paramailitary group, the Irish Republican Army, has agreed to allow a Protestant and a Catholic churchman to witness the decommissioning of its weapons, the BBC said.
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The Irish Republican Army still hasn't contacted the Northern Ireland disarmament chief, raising doubts about the outlawed group's alleged commitment to a new peace deal, the major Protestant leader declared Saturday.
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BELFAST -- The Irish Republican Army has reopened negotiations with Northern Ireland's disarmament chief, the outlawed group said yesterday, signaling its readiness to put more weapons out of commission for the first time in over a year. The move came ahead of the planned unveiling by the leaders of Britain and Ireland of a joint peace package that has taken ...
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Democratic Unionist Party leader, Dr Rev Ian Paisley, has suggested the IRA is about to decommission its weapons, without having independent monitors bearing witness to the event.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern has received a security report showing the Irish Republican Army is recruiting young new members and training them to use firearms, a newspaper reported.
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Warning that he would not be &quot;bluffed,&quot; Protestant leader Ian Paisley said Saturday the latest attempt to achieve peace in Northern Ireland was doomed unless the paramilitary Irish Republican Army (IRA) took immediate and verifiable steps to disarm.
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HILLSBOROUGH, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland  Protestant hard-liner Ian Paisley said on Wednesday the IRA may  be about to disarm but he would not share power with its  political ally Sinn Fein without photographic proof of the act.
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Anglo-Irish attempts to seal a lasting political settlement in Northern Ireland hinge on whether the IRA will allow pictures to be taken of their weapons being destroyed.
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BELFAST -- The Irish Republican Army declared yesterday it is willing to get rid of all its weapons this month -- but only if Protestants drop their demands for photographic proof.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland's peace process requires the Irish Republican Army to renounce crime, as well as disarm, the governments of Britain and Ireland stressed Thursday after the outlawed group announced it will not scrap weapons and does not commit crimes.
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Way to verify IRA&#39;s decommissioning of arms is last obstacle to deal on N. Ireland. By Tod Robberson. LONDON -- Northern Ireland&#39;s feuding leaders came close but ultimately failed to reach a peace agreement
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The Irish Republican Army could disarm in full by Christmas if its political wing and Northern Ireland's biggest Protestant party agree on the latest proposal to revive power-sharing, diplomatic sources revealed.
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DUP leader, Ian Paisley has claimed confidential sources have told him the IRA may be about to go ahead and decommission its weapons.
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Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern was due to meet with the International Monitoring Commission (IMC) which is preparing a report on paramilitary activities in Northern Ireland.
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BELFAST, Northern Ireland  - Northern Ireland was  facing a long bout of deadlock and recrimination Thursday after  Irish Republican Army (IRA) guerrillas said they were  withdrawing a conditional offer to give up their weapons.
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The government is expected to signal it is ready to recognise the Ulster Defence Association ceasefire.