In May, Guatemala's guerrillas became the last in the region to lay down their arms.
Embarking on a peace process, the paramilitaries needed an incentive to lay down their arms.
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It has even talked about an amnesty for those who are willing to lay down their arms.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has proposed a partial amnesty to persuade the rebels to lay down their arms.
In 2008 a memorandum also promised autonomy, but the rebels did not have to lay down their arms.
The first lesson is that you can't convince terrorists to lay down their arms simply by walking away.
For the first time, independent peace movements have emerged, calling on both sides to lay down their arms.
Mr Erdogan has also said his government will continue anti-PKK operations until the Kurdish militants lay down their arms.
Ghazi said his followers were willing to lay down their arms, but on condition neither he nor they are arrested.
But he nevertheless ordered all of his troops on Bataan to lay down their arms and surrender to the Imperial Japanese.
They fear that Karzai and the Americans could bring the Taliban back into power without insisting that they lay down their arms.
Where are the demands that the FMLN guerrillas lay down their arms?
In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
The UN move comes as former rebels in Ivory Coast said on Friday they would not lay down their arms as previously announced.
Even if Mr Bashir keeps his promises, he may find that he can not make the janjaweed obey his instructions to lay down their arms.
But the defence minister says the government will not negotiate until the rebels lay down their arms, which they are doubtless too nervous to do.
Ali Hashim, a Salaheddin provincial council member, said Friday that tribal leaders ordered their people to lay down their arms and let soldiers enter the city.
The Ivory Coast Government says it will not negotiate with the rebels - who control half of the country - until they lay down their arms.
And in June, Congress passed the legal framework for eventual peace talks that would set out the kind of sentences rebels could expect if they agreed to lay down their arms.
The deal has encouraged all but one of the Hutu rebel groups to lay down their arms but some pro-Tutsi parties oppose the proposed constitution, saying it does not give Tutsis enough guarantees.
The warfare subsided after al-Sadr told his followers Sunday to lay down their arms, but the prevailing tension in the region threatens to unravel the government efforts to bring about stability in Iraq.
The NTC has given forces remaining loyal to Col Gaddafi an extra week to lay down their arms but the former Libyan leader has vowed to fight on as uncertainty about his whereabouts continues.
And other ethnic minorities can live with a situation in which the Taliban assume a number of provincial and district governorships providing they lay down their arms, join the political process and recognize the Afghan constitution.
On Wednesday the UN Security Council, which had been accused of inaction, called on the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and urged the Sri Lankan government to allow international aid agencies into areas of need.
Other factors include the decision by radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to order his followers to lay down their arms and the move by many Sunni insurgents to switch sides and fight on the U.S. side -- for pay.
And in March, Ali Obaid, the spokesman for the country's highest security authority, told CNN that Yemen's military committee welcomed dialogue with al Qaeda if they accept specific terms, lay down their arms and hand over territory under their control.
His cause was peace not a bad cause, but Ford pursued it with his usual black-and-white view of the world. (Every question had only one possible point of view: his own.) In December 1915 he chartered a ship to Europe to persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms.
And that's why we have supported Afghan-led efforts towards reconciliation with the Taliban on the conditions that members of the Taliban who wish to reconcile lay down their arms, denounce al Qaeda and sever all ties with al Qaeda, and commit themselves to abiding by the Afghan constitution.
The Philippine government said Tuesday it had tried bring a peaceful end to the standoff by sending Foreign Secretary Albert del Rosario to Malaysia urge restraint, while Philippine President Benigno Aquino III twice appeared on national television in recent days to urge Mr. Kiram's followers to lay down their arms and end their quest.
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