'Paramilitaries must move towards disarmament'

Loyalist and republican paramilitaries must move towards disarmament if the Good Friday Agreement is to reach its full potential, a nationalist minister on the Stormont Executive claimed today.

As British and Irish officials continued to work on a take-it-or-leave package of proposals to rescue the peace process, SDLP minister Sean Farren stepped up pressure on republicans to move on decommissioning.