Despite first engaging with General John De Chastelain eight years ago the UDA and UVF has still not decommissioned a single bullet or ounce of explosives.
The Canadian general has admitted that he has not held talks with UVF go-between Billy Hutchinson in two years.
Mr De Chastelain said that while he has held talks with the UDA-linked UPRG, there is no sign that organisation is preparing to decommission any of its weapons.
While there are no official records as to what weaponry the UVF and UDA possesses, security sources believe that both groups maintain a significant arsenal.
The UVF is thought to have at least 80 AK47 rifles and around 100 eastern European sub-machine guns based on the Israeli Uzi weapon.
It is estimated to have some 500 handguns and 180 grenades, the majority of which are believed to have come from a South African shipment in January 1988.
Between 1979 and 1986 the UVF received around 100 colt commando rifles, 100 Ingram and MAC-10 sub machine-guns and 100 magnum handguns from loyalist supporters in Canada.
Some security experts estimate that the UVF possesses up to two tonnes of Powergel plastic explosives, stolen from quarries in Britain over the years.
In June 2000, 400lbs of UVF explosives were uncovered after a police raid on the New Mossley estate in north Belfast.
In February 2001 more UVF bombs were uncovered after a search in the Mount Vernon area of north Belfast uncovered a 'coffee jar' bomb, under-car booby trap device and a bomb hidden inside a fire extinguisher. It also holds on to hundreds of home-made sub-machines engineered illegally throughout the Troubles.
In November 1993 a major UVF arms shipment from Poland was uncovered in Teesport in the north of England.
The shipment included 320 AK47s with 60,000 rounds of ammunition, 500 hand grenades, 53 pistols with 14,000 rounds of ammunition, two tonnes of plastic explosives (thought to have been Semtex) and several thousand detonators.
It was later claimed that the arms shipment had been part of an MI6 'sting' operation.
Senior UVF sources later admitted privately that while the discovery was a 'set back', other shipments had got through.
In the 1980s British intelligence allowed loyalists to smuggle in a huge arms shipment from South Africa.
In January 1988 the UVF, UDA and Ulster Resistance combined to smuggle in a consignment of 200 AK47 assault rifles, 90 Browning pistols, 500 fragmentation grenades, 30,000 rounds of ammunition and 12 RPG rocket launchers.
The UDA's portion of weapons were recovered after police stopped senior Belfast loyalist Davy Paine and two others in three cars in Portadown.
The UVF later lost the majority of its share of the weapons after they were recovered in the Ligoniel area of north Belfast.
However the Ulster Resistance weapons were never recovered and some, including rocket launchers, were later passed onto Johnny Adair's 'C' Company.
In February 1997 engineer Denis Lindop was jailed for 10 years for manufacturing guns and ammunition at his Hollywood home in Co Down.
Lindop, who was described in court as a 'UVF quarter master' had built a gun factory behind his garage where a cache of 68 guns and component parts for hundreds of other guns were found in 1995.
Lindop's brother, Desmond, a former British Aerospace engineer from Chester-le-Street, Co Durham, was cleared of conspiring to manufacture guns.
A search of his home at the time of his arrest revealed decommissioned gun components, but no home-made weapons.
Desmond Lindop had been arrested in April 1995 close to his brother's house where police found 12 Sten magazines, 400 bullets and 1,000 primers in his car.
Although acquitted on the main charges, Desmond Lindop was convicted of contravening his firearms certificate and fined £1,000.
In May 2000 European Union funding was withdrawn from a loyalist prisoners' group after a raid on its offices in Ballymoney found a rifle, booby-trap device, stun gun, three replica weapons and a large quantity of ammunition.
In April 2004 police recovered a heavy calibre Bren machine gun at Bushmills in Co Antrim.
The weapon is believed to have belonged to the UVF.
However the UDA also received home-made weapons.
In the early 1970s it carried out a number of sectarian attacks using a home-made machine gun known as the 'Whiteabbey Widowmaker'.
It is understood the weapons were made by loyalists working in some of the north's major engineering factories.
Throughout the 1980s the UDA carried out a number of raids on British army bases across the north stealing hundreds of weapons.
While some of the weapons were recovered, others were used in a number of sectarian murders.
In 1989 the UDA used a British army handgun to murder Belfast solicitor Pat Finucane.
The Browning 9mm pistol was one of 12 weapons stolen from the British Army's Palace barracks in August 1987.
UDR soldier Steven Fletcher was later arrested in the Republic and found to be in possession of another handgun stolen from the Palace Barracks armoury. Fletcher was jailed for five years in April 1988.
During the trial, he claimed he had sold the guns to members of the UDA at a drinking club on the Shankill.
In 1990 former UDR soldier Samuel McCoubry was jailed for 14 years for operating the largest weapons factory ever found in the north.
More than 30 Sten guns and parts for over 1,000 Uzi-type rapid-fire machine guns were found during a search of McCoubry's farm outside Ballynahinch.
Up to 800 machine guns were being completed on McCoubry's premises at the time of his arrest.
Four bullet manufacturing machines were also uncovered during the search.
McCoubry is thought to have been manufacturing guns for loyalist paramilitaries for nearly 20 years.
It later emerged he had been subsidised through LEDU (the Local Enterprise Development Unit) in his legitimate saw-making business.
Both the UDA and UVF are understood to have received weapons from McCoubry.
The UDA is thought to possess at least 100 Uzi submachine guns smuggled from arms dealers in the former Soviet bloc.
It is also thought to have around 100 AK47 rifles and 180 Soviet hand-grenades which also came from the Middle East.
In the early 1990s it carried out a number of rocket attacks on the offices and homes of Sinn Féin councillors, as well as an attack on a canteen used by republicans in Crumlin Road jail.
In January 2003 a UDA arms cache was uncovered containing an improvised undercar booby trap device, mercury tilt switches, timers and assorted bomb making equipment.
Between 1999 and 2002 Johnny Adair's 'C' Company is understood to have received a number of shipments of eastern European guns through a weapons dealer in Amsterdam.
In 2003 masked men were photographed with the weapons for Adair's 'Christmas calendar' .The UDA is also believed to have received weapons from right wing groups based in Britain, including Combat 18.
