Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain today insisted all violence and crime associated with the IRA must completely end if its historic declaration yesterday is to move the peace process forward.
The £26.5 million Northern Bank heist in Belfast and the killing of Robert McCartney outside a city centre bar has fuelled unionist scepticism about whether the IRA will keep its word.
But with General John de Chastelain's international disarmament body on standby to examine decommissioning and the Independent Monitoring Commission assessing its ceasefire, Mr Hain said every move would be studied.
He told BBC Breakfast: "It's up to the IRA to deliver and they will be watched and we will be scrutinising everything.
"By actively shutting down I don't just mean bullets and bombs, I mean punishment beatings, criminality, targeting and the robbing of banks."
Mr Hain is set to call new talks with political leaders in a bid to restore devolution after the IRA ordered all units to dump arms and assist in the development of a democratic process to achieve its goal of a united Ireland.
Discussions are expected to begin in September, by which time the British and Irish Governments hope the Provisionals will have completed the arms decommissioning process.
General John de Chastelain is due to meet an IRA representative in the coming days as part of plans to empty the arms dumps.
Two clergymen - one Protestant, one Catholic - have been chosen to scrutinise the destruction along with the General.
Ulster Unionist leader Sir Reg Empey will also meet with his Assembly team today to assess the IRA statement.