It is Uganda's view that all efforts should have been made to disarm them rather than letting them go into the countryside with their arms.

Italy officially laid down its arms on 12 August.

A few first steps have been taken to dismantle and disarm the militias.

(e) Support to Janjaweed militias by the Government of the Sudan and its failure to disarm them

(e) Support to Janjaweed militias by the Government of the Sudan and its failure to disarm them

But this was non violent resistance. Its main weapon was the language of freedom.

Finally the military resistance was ended with negotiations and the Independent Signal Battalion surrendered and was disarmed.

Dispersing these militias without disarming them leaves them with their capacity to disturb the peace.

The cantonment of forces and the disarmament of the Forces nouvelles have not begun.

Encourage the Transitional Government to engage FDLR and urge it to disarm and repatriate to Rwanda.

For durable regional peace to be realized, all the negative forces have to be comprehensively handled and forcibly disarmed.

These developments reiterate the pressing need for the immediate disbanding and disarmament of all Lebanese and non Lebanese militias operating in Lebanon.

Hezbollah is under order by the UN Security Council to disarm and disband its militia, but it claimed that even after Israel s full withdrawal from Lebanon in 2000, it needed its weapons to continue to liberate Lebanese territory.

Meanwhile, the continuing activities of militias pose a dangerous threat to security and their disarming and dismantling should proceed without delay.

On 18 May, the Forces nouvelles indicated that they would not disarm, until a number of conditions had been met.

India has become an accepted, legitimate member of the nuclear club, the fiction of the NPT notwithstanding. It is even less likely that China or Russia would disarm for the sake of a nuclear free world.

I designated a Special Envoy for the implementation of Security Council resolution 1559 (2004), which called, among other things, for the withdrawal of foreign forces from the country and the disbanding and disarmament of militias.

That would help to diminish the possibility of an unbridled regional arms race if talks fail and Iran someday tests a weapon.

The Lebanese, and the Al Jazeera viewing Arab public in general, should simply forget the militant group's recent history of turning its weapons on its fellow Lebanese and precipitating a sectarian rift rivaling that of country's 15 year civil war.

The agreement envisages a role for the United Nations in several areas, including the disarmament process, the dismantling and disarmament of militias, the organization of elections and the training of security auxiliaries in the north.

Participants expressed serious concern at the failure of the Forces démocratiques de liberation du Rwanda (FDLR) to disarm and repatriate in accordance with the group's declaration issued in Rome on 31 March.

France, uniquely in Western Europe, built its own independent nuclear deterrent, and has been a champion of creating a European military capacity outside NATO.

In May, representatives of seven armed groups in Ituri signed an agreement with the Government setting out the conditions for turning in their weapons and taking part in the transition process, which raised hopes for peace in the district.

This is a futile exercise, not only because Israel would never disarm unilaterally, but also because without normal inter state relations in the region it is impossible to engage seriously in an effective dialogue on such vital issues.

In an effort to break that stalemate, UNOCI has proposed a step by step approach starting with the pre cantonment of combatants in the villages of Bouna and Bondoukou, on opposing sides of the zone of confidence, as a prelude to the dismantling and disarming of the militias.

If the world is not one day to consist of a few big nuclear powers and many mid sized and small ones, then the big nuclear powers must now undertake a serious disarmament and non proliferation initiative.

In fact, Hezbollah is now not only militarily stronger than ever Security Council Resolution 1701, which called for its disarmament, has proven to be an utter failure but also more politically robust than before the war.

Regarding the situation, he enumerated 10 different areas where he asserted that the Government of the Sudan had made clear progress, but he also referred, with great concern, to two main priorities with which Sudanese authorities had failed to comply to control and disarm militias and to bring impunity to an end.

I have the honour to transmit herewith a communiqué issued by the Government of the Republic of Rwanda at Kigali on Friday, 1 April 2005, concerning the decision of the ex FAR Interahamwe (FDLR FOCA) to disarm unconditionally and return to Rwanda (see annex).

In this regard, and bearing in mind that NPT is the only legally binding international agreement that commits nuclear weapon States to nuclear disarmament, Nigeria has always called on States parties to reaffirm their commitment to the full implementation of the Treaty in all its aspects, particularly article VI.