The Alliance Party has set out a series of bench-marks against which it believes the British and Irish governments and other parties should assess any future IRA statement.
These should also be applicable to loyalist organisations, the party said.
Alliance leader David Ford said his party was not satisfied with the statements issued by the IRA or the loyalist organisations.
Mr Ford said that throughout the peace process, too much attention has fallen on decommissioning at the expense of a full debate on what was required of republicans and loyalists.
The Alliance Party suggests the following benchmarks:
- the IRA must declare an end to all involvement in any paramilitary and criminal activity and, through exclusively lawful means, ensure that its activists desist immediately
- where individual republicans are involved in paramilitary or criminal activity, others must pass on any information to the lawful authorities
- the republican movement must accept the full legitimacy of both the northern and southern states with respect to policing and criminal justice
- all IRA 'front' organisations and organised crime networks must be dismantled
- the IRA Army Council must end all recruitment, training and intelligence gathering and stand down all its rank and file members. Once this is carried out and weapons are decommissioned, the organisation, including command structures, must disband
- the republican movement must renounce the right to engage in 'community policing' or to engage in what is termed 'internal housekeeping'. There must be an end to all paramilitary beatings and shootings
- the practice of exiling both inside and outside Northern Ireland must come to an end
- all illegally held weapons and explosives to be decommissioned under the aegis of the Decommissioning Commission
- republicans must co-operate fully with the Commission for the Disappeared and both police services in recovering the remains of 'the disappeared'
- republicans must give a commitment not to export their terrorist techniques and expertise to other organisations.
Mr Ford said: "It should be stressed again that all the above also apply to loyalist paramilitary groups."
He said that there was renewed speculation that there will shortly be a fresh statement from the IRA on its future intentions.
But Mr Ford said that recent IRA statements have been different ways of presenting the argument that the IRA is no longer a threat to the peace process and that their campaign of terrorism is over.
"However, they have never given confidence regarding an end to all paramilitary and criminal activity," he said.
"The IRA has always drawn arbitrary distinctions between an end to military activities directed against the state or unionists and their other paramilitary and criminal activity.
"The IRA assumes the right to define what actions threaten the Good Friday Agreement and, by inference, which ones do not. Several times governments have let them away with this."
