Decommissioning team closes offices in the North

The multi-national team given the formidable task of overseeing paramilitary disarmament in the North ended 13 years of work in the region today with its task broadly complete.

The Independent International Commission on Decommissioning (IICD) closed its offices in Belfast on a high note, having secured the destruction of three illegal arsenals on its last day in operation north of the border.