Some of the former combatants entered Zambia with their weapons and later either sold their arms cheaply to criminals or exchanged them for food.

Because small arms are easy to use and readily available, they have become the weapons of choice for today's combatants.

After a period of reductions and adaptations following the end of the cold war, the nuclear weapon countries seem determined to keep enough nuclear weapons in their arsenals to inflict unacceptable damage, should they ever be used in combat.

Let me give it a little weapon on the tail here, so it can fight.

Lay down your weapons and swords.

These are the weapons which are actually killing combatants and civilians in their tens of thousands every year.

Former combatants mingled among refugees have also helped to fuel the illicit trafficking of small arms.

Mercenaries, especially those hired to take part in combat activities and to train future members of battalions, columns or commando units, tend to be former soldiers or combatants and to be experienced in the use of sophisticated weaponry.

Survivors were horrified by reports that the United States was developing usable or combat nuclear weapons.

Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration consists not only of reducing weapons circulation and disbanding armed groups, but also involves the reintegration of combatants into society.

Measures that are already being taken include disarming troops and militias that are not recognized as legal collecting the illegal weapons possessed by former combatants and demobilizing and reintegrating the latter within their societies.

The disarmament process in Liberia recovered 28,314 weapons and 6.5 million pieces of ordnance from 101,500 demobilized soldiers, a ratio of 3.6 combatants per weapon surrendered.

Our leaders reasoned that nuclear weapons were not weapons of war these were weapons of mass destruction.

And there were people, strategists, within the U.S. military who genuinely thought that this single device was going to spell the difference between defeat and victory when it came to the battle against the Nazis and against the Japanese.

Non strategic nuclear weapons

The United States alone possesses between 11,000 and 13,000 nuclear weapons, of which more than 7,000 are strategic and more than 3,000 non strategic.

The challenge that small arms and light weapons pose for us is complex.

By comparison, and even though the sources are fragmentary, the Sierra Leone disarmament process yielded 75,000 combatants and 25,000 weapons.

Such a regional strategy should help reduce the cross border movement of combatants and weapons and ensure the consolidation of peace processes throughout the region.

For their military operations, the rebels further needed labour to carry weapons, food and ammunition, but also combatants, for which children were found to be suitable, once they had been trained.

UNIDIR has carried out a detailed analysis of selected weapons collection programmes in order to assist policymakers, donor countries, United Nations specialized agencies, and international non governmental organizations (NGOs) to devise better strategies to collect weapons from civilians and former combatants.

But you also don't have the time, resources, expertise or wherewithal to fight this.

(c) Reduction of non strategic nuclear weapons

(c) Reduction of non strategic nuclear weapons

(c) Reduction of non strategic nuclear weapons

In that context, effective demobilization of combatants and their integration into society, weapons collection and mine clearance were of paramount importance.

To arms! To arms!

The Government also indicated that the government forces apos response was appropriate as the armed formations they were fighting were equipped with the most up to date weapons, including armoured vehicles and rocket propelled projectiles.

The opposition used arms purchased at BAM to fight TFG in the battle for control of the strategically important town of Baidoa (Bay region).

European Action on Small Arms, Light Weapons and Explosive Remnants of War

57 58. Reduction of non strategic nuclear weapons

58 50. Reduction of non strategic nuclear weapons

But I fought. I fought. I fought on the battlefield.

The Panel has received reports from UNMIL military observers and civil society indicating that weapons were probably still available to some former combatants, in particular small weapons such as assault rifles (AK 47 type) and also rocket launchers.

The United Nations Economic Community of West African States 1997 Liberia disarmament programme yielded almost 19,000 weapons, although the number of combatants disarmed remains unknown.

Democratic principles and values are essential tools in the fight against terrorism.

The Council is further encouraged to consider strengthening the financing of disarmament, demobilization and reintegration programmes through the expansion of measures covered under the budget for peacekeeping operations, thus ensuring that such activities are not entirely dependent upon voluntary contributions from Member States.

Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Strategic Offensive Reductions

Under the disarmament and community reintegration programme, which ended on 25 June, 15,607 combatants of various militia groups, including 4,395 children (840 of whom were girls) were disarmed and some 6,200 weapons collected, of which, however, 70 per cent were unserviceable.

(i) The prohibition of those types of non strategic nuclear weapons that have already been removed from the arsenals of some nuclear weapon States and the development of transparency mechanisms for the verification of the elimination of these weapons

Small arms and light weapons are now central to all civil wars and armed violence throughout the world.

(aa) Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework

(aa) Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework

(aa) Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework

(aa) Bilateral strategic nuclear arms reductions and the new strategic framework