De Chastelain calls on loyalists to disarm

The IRA's decommissioned arms included ammunition, rifles, machine guns, mortars, missiles, handguns, explosives and explosive substances, General John de Chastelain has said.

The general added that the IRA's disarmament is "not an end to the mandate" of the international decommissioning body and he called on loyalist paramilitaries to give up their weapons.