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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Rory Carroll Ireland correspondent

British and Irish governments ‘should negotiate paramilitary disbandment in Northern Ireland’

A Loyalist paramilitary mural of a man in a balaclava painted on a Belfast brick wall.
A UVF mural on Newtownards Road in east Belfast, since replaced with images of Edward Carson. Photograph: Horst Friedrichs/Alamy

The British and Irish governments should engage with paramilitary groups in Northern Ireland to negotiate their disbandment, according to a report.

A “window of opportunity” exists to establish a formal transition mechanism for loyalist and republican groups, provided certain conditions are met, it said.

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