1.   They also indicated that they would surrender their arms to ECOMOG as soon as the NPFL had done so.

2.   A Marine officer confirmed that the US forces had to threaten to call in Cobra attack helicopters before the KLA force submitted and surrendered its arms.

3.   Combatants who have surrendered their arms are protected under the Geneva Convention.

4.   Decommissioning, the surrender of hidden arms caches, had been papered over in conciliatory language to get the deal signed, but no arms were surrendered.

5.   NATO hopes the presence of its troops will make the rebels, who would get amnesty under the proposed peace deal, feel safe enough to surrender some arms.

6.   No republican paramilitary group has ever willingly surrendered arms, including IRA breakaway groups that have since sworn off violence.

7.   Omar guaranteed the residents a peaceful and secure community if they agreed to surrender their arms to him.

8.   Sinn Fein has said that the IRA will not surrender any arms before talks, but that the party will discuss disarmament as part of an overall solution.

9.   The IRA argues that no previous incarnation of the IRA had been forced to surrender arms after ending violent campaigns.

10.   The Russians, meanwhile, insist they will only withdraw after Chechen independence fighters surrender their arms.