Decommissioning of Republican Paramilitary Weaponry
In 2000, Martti Ahtisaari, former President of Finland, and Cyril Ramaphosa, South African political and business leader, were appointed to inspect IRA weapons dumps. They submitted three reports over the next year.
Read more about this topic: Independent International Commission On Decommissioning
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