"Drama on BBC Radio 4 is in rude health," wrote the station's controller Mark Damazer on his blog last month as he sought to reassure listeners over his contentious decision to decommission the Friday Play.
THE IRA refuses to move towards decommissioning its weapons; the Good Friday Agreement teeters on the brink of collapse; the British and Irish governments are in feverish conclave in a bid to stitch together a last-minute rescue plan.
The government spent £65m on upgrading the vessel a year ago and there was no mention of the decommissioning in Monday's defence and security review.
"We're working every single day with the LinkNYC/CityBridge and decommissioning the pay phones," Jenkins said recently.
If, in our view, a genuine and meaningful response is forthcoming to Monday's statement from the Independent International Commission on Decommissioning the way will then be clear for the establishment of the political Institutions envisaged in the Belfast Agreement.
Conflict over the timing and extent of IRA decommissioning (disarmament) blocked implementation of the Good Friday Agreement until Trimble, buoyed by IRA concessions, persuaded the Ulster Unionist Council, the UUP's governing body, to allow him to share governmental authority with Sinn Féin in 1999 and again in 2000.
It generated its last megawatt (MW) of electricity at 14 00 GMT on Friday with nine months of decommissioning starting on 31 March.
Henry McDonald will give a lecture on paramilitarism, 'Detonations and decommissioning', at a round-table appraisal of the Good Friday Agreement, organised by Democratic Dialogue, in Belfast's Europa Hotel on Tuesday.
WASHINGTON -- Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Ron Dermer said Sunday the Israeli military is "finishing up decommissioning the tunnels" Hamas has built underground from Gaza into Israel, and said he hoped "that job will be completed in a matter of hours, not days".
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