1.   The February agreement gave ECOMOG the additional task of disarming the factions.

2.   So far, none have tried to mediate civil disputes or disarm warring factions.

3.   The tiny force will have no power to impose sanctions for cease-fire violations or disarm rebel factions that have not signed the Lusaka accord.

4.   Ali Mahdi Mohammed, the first to claim the Somalia presidency, argues that the most serious UNOSOM shortcoming was its failure to disarm various factions.

5.   But the peacekeepers withdrew before the factions were disarmed, the troops demobilized, and key state functions made non-partisan.

6.   Disarming factions one of biggest hurdles to Timor vote.

7.   Once in charge, Taliban leaders promised to disarm the factions, bring peace and security and, most importantly, impose their strict version of Islamic laws.

8.   The Security Council recently agreed to send military observers to Sierra Leone to help disarm warring factions.

9.   The United Nations recently voted to send military observers to Sierra Leone to help disarm warring factions.

10.   The United Nations demanded Monday that Indonesia start disarming warring factions in East Timor ahead of an August ballot on whether the troubled territory should become independent.