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	Guardian \| General de Chastelain's moment of truth
		General John de Chastelain, the softly spoken Canadian charged with overseeing disarmament in Northern Ireland, will move to centre stage today when he issues his long-awaited report on whether the IRA and other paramilitaries are committed to disposing of their arms.
		The general's report will outline how fruitful his talks have been with paramilitaries or their representatives and whether they responded positively to a questionnaire he sent them which asked how committed they were to disarming.
		Gen de Chastelain attempted to dispel Unionist fears earlier this month when he used an interview with the Daily Telegraph, a consistent critic of the peace process, to declare that he would not be part of a fudge.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3879040-103690,00.html (902 words)

	BBC News \| NORTHERN IRELAND \| Profile: John de Chastelain
		General John de Chastelain's only experience of Northern Ireland before 1995 had been a stopover on a childhood visit to the Irish Republic.
		Although Canadian, Gen John de Chastelain is British by upbringing.
		Gen de Chastelain supervised the negotiations with the Mohawks which resolved the dispute and led to a solution including the decommissioning of some Mohawk weapons.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/northern_ireland/1478004.stm (744 words)

	Sunday Life (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		General John de Chastelain, who is in Belfast until Wednesday, has made approaches to meet representatives from the Commission which includes church, community and political figures as well as representatives of the UDA, UVF and Red Hand Commando terror groups.
		The General is being accompanied on his trip by his fellow commissioners of the independent arms decommissioning group - the Finnish Brigadier Tauno Nieminen and the former diplomat Andrew Sens from the United States.
		Loyalist sources say that while they respect the General they suspect he was seeking to probe how decommissioning of their organisations could come about and what they would be seeking in return.
	www.sundaylife.co.uk /news/story.jsp?story=670882 (355 words)

	BBC News \| Profiles \| John de Chastelain: Arms and the man
		It is a measure of the organisational and personal skills that mark the career of this soldier turned diplomat that he was able to grasp so early on the complexities of the situation in which he found himself.
		It was the diplomatic and negotiating skills he displayed as a soldier, as much as anything, that brought General de Chastelain to the attention of George Mitchell and those heading up the peace process.
		The General was involved in the negotiations with the Mohawks which resolved the dispute.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/northern_ireland/profiles/307776.stm (568 words)

	Dáil Debate - 22
		While General John de Chastelain is a polite and gracious man, he is also very conscious of his independence and the legislation and regulations under which his commission is established.
		This was all stated by General de Chastelain but he could not say it consisted of 95 of this, 36 of that or 11 of the other and I knew that he could not say that.
		However, we had to be mindful of the possibility that if the confidentiality which enables General de Chastelain to proceed with his task was lifted by the Governments, it could have the effect of damaging the prospects of fully resolving the arms issue in the longer term.
	www.irlgov.ie /debates-03/22oct/Sect1.htm (19661 words)

	The Examiner - News From Ireland - 11, December, 1999
		The statement by the International Commission on Decommissioning headed by General John de Chastelain was warmly welcomed by Mr Ahern last night.
		The statement from General John de Chastelain came within hours of a meeting with the Ulster Freedom Fighters, just two days after the loyalist terror group appointed a number of gobetweens to the disarmament body.
		General de Chastelain said the meeting with the IRA’s representative at the weekend — though to have taken place in Dundalk — had been frank and useful and confirmed that further talks would take place.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/1999/december/11/ipage_19.htm (487 words)

	The Scotsman - General hails end to Irish politics' gun era (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		General John de Chastelain said "very large quantities of arms, which we believe include all the arms in the IRA's possession", had been decommissioned.
		On what should have been a historic day for the peace process, Gen de Chastelain, admitted that he had not asked the IRA for photographic evidence, as this had been rejected in the past, and said that the people of Northern Ireland would have to take his statement on trust.
		At that stage, a tired and under pressure Gen de Chastelain left unionists totally underwhelmed when he was rushed in late to give his assessment of the weapons destruction.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=1999462005 (1292 words)

	Irish Echo Online - News
		Shortly after General John de Chastelain took charge of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning, he went on a walkabout in the Clonard district of West Belfast, the epicenter of the August 1969 upheavals which led to the 30 years of violence that the general is now trying to help bring to a permanent end.
		General de Chastelain proceeded, without notes, in 30 minutes to run through the history of the decommissioning problem.
		The problem that de Chastelain and his commission must deal with is therefore secondary to the political one of creating a state which earns the trust of the Catholic community without arousing the hostility and insecurity of the Protestants.
	www.irishecho.com /search/searchstory.cfm?id=8648&issueid=181 (1105 words)

	General had verified weapons disposal - Unionists
		General John de Chastelain and his decommissioning body colleagues handled and inspected the IRA's arms, ammunition and explosives before they were put beyond use, it emerged today.
		According to a transcript released by the Ulster Unionists of their meeting with the General on Tuesday just hours after the commission confirmed IRA disarmament had taken place, the General said he had verified that the weapons were genuine.
		General de Chastelain said: "We made it clear to O'Neill (the codename for the IRA) that a lack of transparency makes things difficult but we want to get other events and don't want to create difficulties there.
	www.orgsites.com /pa/aoh17pec/weapons.htm (525 words)

	RTE News - Ian Paisley meets General De Chastelain
		Mr Trimble and the SDLP leader, John Hume, were given the award by the French government in recognition of their work in the peace process.
		There is increasing speculation in the North that General John De Chastelain will soon present an interim progress report on the decommissioning issue to the British and Irish governments.
		Reports from Belfast suggest that General De Chastelain's private report is unlikely to raise hopes, at this stage, that the IRA are considering meeting the North's First Minister David Trimble's demand for actual decommissioning to take place by the end of February.
	www.rte.ie /news/1999/1209/arms.html (257 words)

	CTV.ca \| De Chastelain: IRA 'has destroyed all its arms' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Retire Canadian General John De Chastelain, head of the International Decommissioning Body, speaks to the media during a press conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland on Monday.
		De Chastelain, who in recent weeks has been in secret locations overseeing the weapons destruction, earlier in the day gave representatives of the British and Irish governments a confidential report on his work.
		Questioned by reporters, de Chastelain said he could not be absolutely certain that every IRA weapon had been disposed of, but he said he believed the IRA was sincere in saying it had handed over the whole arsenal.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20050926/ira_weapons_050926/20050926?hub=TopStories (860 words)

	UCC Press Release: [short title here] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		On Thursday, 5 February, General de Chastelain, who has established unique lines of communication with paramilitary organisations from both sides of the religious divide in Northern Ireland, will deliver the guest lecture as part of the President’s Distinguished Guest Lecture Series, in Boole Lecture IV Theatre at University College Cork.
		British by upbringing, General de Chastelain, the son of a Scottish oil engineer and American mother, was born in Romania and educated in Edinburgh.
		In Northern Ireland, General de Chastelain has shown himself to be a principled man of infinite patience.
	www.ucc.ie /opa/pr/PRdeChastelain.html (454 words)

	Slugger O'Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		General de Chastelain, his American colleague Andrew Sens and Finnish Brigadier Tauno Nieminen, said: “The Garda informed us that what they regard as reliable sources in relation to the IRA and its weaponry have produced no intelligence suggesting any arms have been retained."
		However, the head of the IICD, General John de Chastelain, and his colleagues have concluded that, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, the assessment they made about IRA weapons decommissioning in September remains correct.
		Gen De Chasterlain did check his terms of reference to see if he could deploy to Kent and investigate this source of firearms to paramilitaries.
	www.sluggerotoole.com /index.php/weblog/comments/some_ira_men_still_have_guns (1210 words)

	SuicideGirls > News > Politics > IRA Decommission a Reality at Last
		General John de Chastelain, a commisioner of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning who has been overseeing the decommisioning of the IRA, is expected to present a report to the British & Irish governments confirming the decommission.
		SEP 25, 2005 11:19 PM General John de Chastelain, a commisioner of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning who has been overseeing the decommisioning of the IRA, is expected to present a report to the British & Irish governments confirming the decommission.
		BBC quote General de Chastelaine as saying "We have observed and verified events to put beyond use very large quantities of arms which we believe include all the arms in the IRA's possession.
	suicidegirls.com /news/politics/11948 (1464 words)

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		General John de Chastelain expected to report on arms move
		General John de Chastelain, head of the body overseeing the disarmament, is then expected to give a news conference with the two independent witnesses.
		General de Chastelain, Andrew Sens and Tauno Nieminen - the commissioners of the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning - have been in Ireland overseeing the latest round of decommissioning since the beginning of September.
	www.brubiz.com /brubiz/final_content.asp?ID=8587 (586 words)

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		Moreover, volunteers were sometimes told that de Chastelain knew he had to spoof that decommissioning had occurred in order to save the peace process and avert a certain return to war by the IRA, frustrated at progress being blocked by unionist demands for something they knew they would never get.
		Which was as well, because the general failed to respond, using up his words vainly trying to persuade me that the IRA had not surrendered.
		General De Chastelain stated that he believed all IRA weaponry had been decommissioned.
	lark.phoblacht.net /am27090510g.html (1300 words)

	Irish Abroad - Irish American News
		Pressed again on the caliber and type of weapons, de Chastelain gave reporters a brief arms lecture on “light, medium and heavy ordnance.” He was, he said, not necessary talking about arms destroyed Tuesday but ordnance in general.
		De Chastelain said the IRA had broken off contact with his commission in October last year (following the suspension of the Assembly by the British government) and formal contact had not been re-established until Tuesday.
		The general said he had asked the IRA how much longer he would need to spend as a commissioner and was told they could not answer that because “all of this is tied in with the political process in which we don’t play a part.”
	www.irishabroad.com /news/irishinamerica/news/general.asp (642 words)

	Irish Gazette
		Speaking at a press conference near Belfast, General John de Chastelain said it was an “important milestone” for Northern Ireland and said he hoped the move would prompt other groups to make a similar move.
		General de Chastelain said decommissioning by other paramilitary groups “remains vital.” He had earlier delivered a report to the Irish and British governments that confirmed the IRA had fully and verifiably decommissioned its arsenal of weapons.
		I particularly welcome General de Chastelain’s confirmation that IRA decommissioning is complete and that the amount of arms and material decommissioned by the IRA is consistent with the assessments provided by the security services of the two governments last year.”
	www.theirishgazette.com /Pages/milestone.html (795 words)

	[No title]
		The head of the decommissioning body, General John de Chastelain, published a report on Friday Feb 11 in which the IRA stated the context in which it would "put its weapons beyond use".
		He said that Gen de Chastelain's integrity could be undermined by the "considerable media and political speculation" that the commission has more information from the IRA than is contained in the second report.
		Since Gen de Chastelain might be inhibited from revealing the contents of private conversations, the onus falls upon the republican movement to come out publicly and reveal what promises it gave to the commission."
	members.lycos.co.uk /northernireland/dec5.htm (511 words)

	Pressure builds for IRA arms details - The Boston Globe
		De Chastelain, a retired Canadian general charged with overseeing guerrilla disarmament, confirmed Tuesday that the IRA had destroyed automatic rifles, explosives and other weapons but under the terms of his role, is not allowed to go further.
		Britain had set in train a carefully orchestrated sequence of events by declaring elections to Northern Ireland's power-sharing assembly would be held on Nov. 26.
		But although the general said the move involved more weapons than two previous acts of IRA disarmament, he gave no details in his report and the choreography broke when Trimble said it was too vague and he could go no further with the deal.
	www.boston.com /news/world/articles/2003/10/23/pressure_builds_for_ira_arms_details (535 words)

	RTE News - De Chastelain in talks with UDA
		General John de Chastelain has held new talks with the loyalist paramilitary group, the Ulster Defence Association.
		The Canadian General was accompanied by his two fellow commissioners, Andrew Sens and Tauno Nieminen, for the meeting at an undisclosed location in the city.
		A spokesman for General de Chastelain said there is continuing contact with the loyalist group.
	www.rte.ie /news/2005/1028/uda.html?rss (120 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Latest News - Paisley to quiz general over report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		General John de Chastelain was meeting the Rev Ian Paisley to try to convince him of the accuracy of his report that the IRA has decommissioned all of its weapons.
		Unionists are pressing for publication of the Government estimates of the size of the IRA stockpile against which the general made his judgment that all the weapons were gone.
		In a round of meetings, Gen de Chastelain and his two fellow commissioners were also meeting the Ulster Unionists, SDLP and Alliance parties.
	news.scotsman.com /latest.cfm?id=2000012005 (516 words)

	News - 13 February 2001
		The aim of the meeting was to look at the working methods of the General Assembly and to come up with some specific ways that they could be improved.
		The members of the General Committee, which are the 21 Vice-Presidents of the General Assembly and the Chairpersons of the Six Main Committees, participated in the session, as did a number of Permanent Representatives of other delegations.
		Holkeri made opening remarks in the beginning of the meeting, emphasizing that as the President of the General Assembly it is his duty to continue the process of reform, which is also in accordance with the mandate given by the Millennium Summit.
	www.un.org /ga/president/55/news/130201.htm (248 words)

	BreakingNews.ie: IRA told commission: 'This is everything' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		General John de Chastelain has said the IRA has disarmed "the totality of its arsenal".
		General John de Chastelain was told: "Yes, this is everything" when he asked the IRA whether all their arms had been put beyong use.
		The general added that he did not see any weapons manufactured post-1996, the year the IRA renewed its ceasefire.
	www.breakingnews.ie /2005/09/26/story222560.html (203 words)

	TIME.com Print Page: World -- IRA Satisfies Disarmament Panel
		On Monday in Belfast, retired Canadian General John de Chastelain finally delivered the report he'd been waiting eight years to make: his international panel had spent the previous week observing the IRA decommission a vast array of weaponry, everything from a World War II-vintage machine gun to surface-to-air missiles.
		General De Chastelain's announcement ought to mean the removal of a huge obstacle to a lasting settlement in Northern Ireland.
		Another international panel is standing by to verify that the IRA has gone out of business, at which point unionists may begin to find it difficult to maintain it as the excuse for refusing to govern alongside their former enemies in the republican political movement Sinn Fein.
	www.time.com /time/world/printout/0,8816,1110402,00.html (519 words)

	The Examiner - News From Ireland - 10, December, 1999
		The fact that its representatives are prepared to meet the General de Chastelain body is being viewed as a major step.
		Party spokesman John White has been at the forefront of efforts to overcome the doubters in the Ulster Freedom Fighters’ ranks.
		But the DUP, who met General de Chastelain yesterday, said its members were concerned that people would have no proof of weapons being destroyed.
	ted.examiner.ie /archives/1999/december/10/ipage_13.htm (512 words)

	AM - New era as IRA destroys its arms
		Retired Canadian General, John de Chastelain, may not have chosen his words well when he began to speak.
		JOHN DE CHASTELAIN: I don't want to start until I'm told I can start, I'm waiting for a starting gun I should rephrase that, I'm waiting for somebody to tell me to start.
		JOHN DE CHASTELAIN: We have now reported to the British and Irish governments that we have observed and verified events to put beyond use very large quantities of arms, which we believe include all the arms in the IRA's possession.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2005/s1469087.htm (511 words)

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