Blair seeks arms 'disclosure'

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The UK's BBC News reports that:

The British Government is "working hard to find a way to try and disclose" the details of IRA decommissioning which stalled the political process, Tony Blair has said. Speaking in the Commons, the prime minister said he was trying to resolve what he described as an unsatisfactory situation. On Tuesday, Ulster Unionists rejected the IRA's latest act of decommissioning as not being transparent enough.
Talks resumed on Wednesday in an effort to rescue a potential deal to restore devolution in Northern Ireland.

Arms chief General John de Chastelain's report confirmed the quantity of weapons put beyond use by the IRA was "considerably larger" than that which had been previously decommissioned by the republican movement.


Mr Blair told MPs: "Under the decommissioning legislation, it is open to a paramilitary organisation to decommission with confidentiality. That is the arrangement they entered into with General de Chastelain." He added: "We are not at liberty to disclose that information, but we are working hard to find a way to try and disclose it. On the basis of what we know, people would be satisfied if they knew the full details. Unionists need to be sure that what is being said is a substantial act of decommissioning is indeed a substantial act of decommissioning."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3204391.stm

No wonder they can't find/won't tell about the IRA weapons.....If 12 years' of UNSCOM inspections failed to find Saddam's stash, it is unlikely Blair will find out what the drugs barons and money launderers in Eire have done with their own arsenal...