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Loyalists follow IRA's example

Mark Devenport | 11:33 UK time, Thursday, 18 June 2009

A quick screech of tyres and a handbrake turn this morning. After spending a few hours buried in mounds of MPs' expenses, word came through that the UVF had engaged in a significant act of decommissioning. According to the the UDA is expected to follow soon.

With the August deadline looming for the end of General De Chastelain's disarmament scheme, the government will be delighted by such a breakthrough. Peter Robinson has already welcomed any move by the loyalists to wind down their paramilitary structures and decommission their weaponry.

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