THE report of the International Body on Arms Decommissioning recommended that participants in all party negotiations seeking "an agreed political settlement and to take the gun out of Irish politics" should affirm their commitment to the following six principles a.To democratic and exclusively peaceful means of resolving political issues b.To the total disarmament of all paramilitary organisations c.To agree that such disarmament must be verifiable to tlie satisfaction of an independent commission.
d.To renounce for themselves and to oppose any effort by others to use force, or threaten to use force to influence the course or the outcome of all party negotiations e.To agree to abide by the terms of any agreement reached in all party negotiations and to resort to democratic and exclusively peaceful methods it? trying to alter any aspect of that out come with which their may disagree and f To urge that "punishment" killings and beating a stop and to take effective, steps to prevent such actions.