Timeline
- 10 April 1998 (Good Friday): Belfast Agreement is signed, which agrees to have all paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland decommission by May 2000.
- May 2000: Deadline to disarm passes. Independent International Commission on Decommissioning agrees on a new deadline, June 30, 2001.
- 30 June 2001: Deadline to disarm passes.
- July 2001: Ulster Unionist leader David Trimble resigns as First Minister because the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) refuses to disarm.
- 7 August, 2001: The IRA agrees on a method to decommission.
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