Press conference - independent witnesses: The two independent eyewitnesses to the IRA decommissioning, the Rev Harold Good and Fr Alec Reid, said they had been acting as the eyes of the public and that they offered nothing other than their honest testimony and their integrity.
Both took part in yesterday's press conference in Belfast. They also gave a series of interviews afterwards.
Mr Good, the former Methodist president, said: "We stood beside the general and his colleagues from dawn to dusk each day that we were involved in this exercise and there were many days.
"We never left their side, we learned a great deal about their weaponry, they helped us to understand how you decommission.
"They helped us to understand how you put explosives and ammunition beyond use. We couldn't bring any expertise, but we did bring our integrity.
"The how [of decommissioning] is not as important as the what," he said.
"The detail is not as important as the outcome. Let's focus on the what and . . . on the outcome."
He said he understood fully unionist misgivings about the process. "What we do have to say is that our eyes were the lenses through which all the images were put into our mind. We now simply want to say, on behalf of the wider community, 'we were there'."
Fr Reid said: "What we have now is an opportunity to create a new society, a society which will be really just, where there will be equal healthcare, equal education, full employment, a model police force . . . where we will have a just and democratic society which can be a model for the rest of the world. All this talk about inventories, about why they didn't have photographs - and I can tell you why they didn't have photographs - that to me is missing the point."
He continued: "The whole point is that we should be thanking God, and I believe this is a grace from God, we have now put the physical force politics of nationalism which goes back 700 years - we've closed that. This is very historical here. We are closing the curtain on 700 years of Irish history."
Fr Reid said he knew republicans from Sinn Féin and the IRA better than most thanks to having thousands of meeting with them over three decades. He knew when they were being straight with him, he said.
He vowed he would lay his life on the line in order to stand over his testimony, but he knew he would not have to, such was his confidence.
He commended his Methodist colleague, saying that the unionist community had "a man of whom they can be proud".
"You will not meet a man with greater integrity," he said.