General John de Chastelain and IICD handled and inspected IRA arms, ammunition and explosives before they were put beyond use, the Ulster Unionists claimed today.
According to a transcript released by the UUP of their meeting with the IICD on Tuesday, the General told them he had verified that the weapons were genuine.
He said a concrete cap was not placed over the weapons and he said he was anticipating another meeting with a representative of the Provisional IRA soon.
"We are not prepared to go into methodologies but it is not a cap. That would not meet the requirements. The method used does meet the requirements," Mr Trimble and three colleagues were told.
"The event is significant. Since I have been here I have seen wall murals many times which say `Not a bullet. Not an ounce'," the General said.
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"I can assure you there is more than a bullet and an ounce but I cannot say how much. We can say, however, that we have taken inventories and it contains a range of materials."
The transcript was released by the UUP after the Democratic Unionists claimed after a meeting with the General in Belfast last night that there was not a shred of evidence to prove disarmament had actually happened.
The DUP leader, Rev Ian Paisley claimed the General was unable to tell them "where the act had taken place, how many weapons were involved and whether further disarmament would occur."
But in the transcript, the UUP were told that while there was no photographic evidence of the event, an inventory had been taken and the weapons were handled to check they were genuine, the ammunition was counted and the explosives were weighed.
General de Chastelain also said: "We will continue our engagement with O'Neill and expect our next meeting to be soon."
He also told the delegation if they believed it to be a "one-off event" by the IRA, the commissioners would have said so in the report.
PA