So people, please- at a wedding ceremony, keep your arms down and if you must snap your own pictures, do it discreetly.
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One of the things I emphasized to President Karzai, however, is, is that the incentives for the Taliban to lay down arms, or at least portions of the Taliban to lay down arms, and make peace with the Afghan government in part depends on our effectiveness in breaking their momentum militarily.
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And that is why we support an Afghan-led process of reconciliation with very clear conditions -- that any Taliban member who wants to lay down his arms, or her arms -- lay down his arms, primarily -- make clear that they support the Afghan constitution, the rights of women and minorities, and renounce any affiliation or support for al Qaeda, then they are obviously welcome in the reconciliation process.
Recently his foreign minister offered such talks but left the question of laying down arms unanswered.
First Taylor ripped the ball out of Noah Cato's arms before touching down, man of the match Kirkpatrick converting.
Both the law makers and law breakers have too much invested in the conflict for either to lay down arms easily.
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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The Justice and Peace Law offers only limited amnesty to all those laying down their arms.
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It has even talked about an amnesty for those who are willing to lay down their arms.
"I don't think the PKK will lay down its arms, " said Shamal Bishir, the PJAK's foreign affairs chief.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has proposed a partial amnesty to persuade the rebels 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.
Does that mean the Mahdi Army lays down its arms and, you know, lays their guns and puts up their hands?
He was supposed to get himself into a delta position - head down, arms swept back - as soon as possible after leaving his capsule.
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.
Seleka accuses Mr Bozize of failing to honour a 2007 peace deal under which fighters who laid down their arms were meant to be paid.
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.
But our East Africa correspondent says the rebels' brutal tactic of kidnapping children is a clear signal that they have no intention of laying down their arms.
The important contingencies -- or rather, the conditions of reconciliation -- not contingencies but conditions -- are renouncing violence, renouncing terrorism, laying down your arms, and abiding by the Afghan constitution.
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