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"What the whole region needs is to find a way to demilitarize," he said.

To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision.

The general said the decision to demilitarize had been a very hard one for the rebels.

We must demilitarize our relationship and make it purely political.

But a plan for demilitarizing the streets is still sorely needed.

Five years ago the tanks were removed as part of efforts to demilitarize the city.

Without such an accord there can be no guarantee of demilitarizing the Palestinian state.

Israel, feeling vulnerable, is not keen on demilitarizing its own territory.

Demilitarize means "to close a military organization; to remove the military power or potential."

It is time to demilitarize our major cities.

Demilitarizing space only meant playing into the hands of a culture that had displayed a hostile intent toward us.

It asks that refugees be allowed to return home and seeks further talks to demilitarize the region.

"Today the trend is to demilitarize the service uniforms.

In that time, a country that has been dominated by its own army and guerrillas will demilitarize.

Tonight, we will start down the road to demilitarize our nation, while simultaneously rebuilding our country's infrastructure.

This is supposed to completely demilitarize Earth, achieving the long-sought dream of world peace.

The United States had also proposed extending the safe area four miles northward and demilitarizing it.

Honduras is trying to demilitarize a police force widely considered to be inefficient, brutal and corrupt.

I like the idea of demilitarizing the Persian Gulf."

The war of the roses: demilitarizing invasion biology.

The Depot's demilitarize grounds are also able to burn materials up to 100,000 pounds net explosive weight.

He recalled the May 2000 agreement but said, "That deal was destroyed on the policing issue and the failure to demilitarize."

So does the West German proposal to demilitarize East Germany.

After bravura political performances in moving to demilitarize Europe and democratize his nation, he may finally be flinching.

"I could not even demilitarize space, as I promised you I would," he said.

We need, first and foremost, to demilitarise and disarm the people.

The aim was to demilitarise the island eventually.

Are we going to demilitarise our Zone there?'

The first concerns the proposal to demilitarise East Timor that keeps coming up in the discussions.

At Alexandria the French agree to demilitarise the battleship Lorraine and several smaller ships.

The company forcibly put down this uprising during 1897, and afterwards took significant steps to demilitarise the tribal population and bring its chiefs onside.

North and south Sudan are reported to have agreed in principle to demilitarise the disputed border region of Abyei.

In the entire resolution there is no trace of an attempt to reduce tension and demilitarise the Korean peninsula, namely the necessary steps in the right direction.

The Treaty of Versailles stipulated that Germany must relinquish several of its territories and demilitarise the Rhineland.

"Those who want to demilitarise Abkhazia were not here during the war; they do not know that the Abkhaz people are a brotherhood of warriors," he said.

There was concern that military operations had taken place in the Kivus and the Rally for Congolese Democracy was urged to demilitarise Kisangani.

In 2004 he was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Awards for peace for his efforts in trying to demilitarise and denuclearize South Asia.

As for Kaliningrad, is it not in the interests of all parties to start to find ways to demilitarise this last vestige of the Cold War in Europe?

Since the situation in the region has deteriorated significantly recently, with this resolution we appeal to the government of the South Sudan to ensure democracy in the country and to demilitarise its territories.

The Soviet leadership chose an official visit by Brezhnev to New Delhi in December 1980 to proclaim a set of principles to neutralise and demilitarise the Persian Gulf.

Attempts to demilitarise the disputed regions had been tried, but in the aftermath of insurrections in Peru, forces were deployed into the disputed region, on the then Colombian side of the border.

In the 1950s the Antarctic Treaty was negotiated to demilitarise the region and retain Antarctica - defined as all land and ice shelves south of 60 S latitude - for peaceful research purposes.

But this time, Santiago's mayors stormed off to Guatemala City, alerted the international press, and managed to corner the civilian president, Vinicio Cerezo, forcing him to sign an agreement to demilitarise the town.

While Tsugba, like all the other Prime Ministers, strongly opposed any idea of reunification with Georgia, and highly criticised cross-border raids by Georgian paramilitaries, he managed to demilitarise the conflict to a degree.

Lacking obvious leaders who represent the opposition's demands beyond Mubarak's removal - for real democracy and free and fair elections - how does this new, popular and vibrant movement maintain its momentum to demilitarise politics and society?

UNITA was also required to demilitarise its troops, complete the transformation of its radio station Vorgan into a non-partisan broadcasting station, and extend the authority of the state to the areas controlled by it.

The Presevo valley conflict ended after international intervention that led to peace treaty, which demilitarise the area, amnestied UÇPMB and granted to the Yugoslav army entry to the region under NATO's approval.

I did not support the report because my firm, consistent commitment to pacificist values lead me to criticise this report, the spirit and focus of which are entirely opposed to the need to demilitarise the EU's foreign policy and its foreign relations.

The first is to demilitarise Kosovo and to replace the mercenaries and groups of soldiers marauding there with an international peacekeeping force, and the second is to put police, administration and jurisdiction back into the hands of the elected authorities in Kosovo.

We need to demilitarise security and go back to the old values of a Europe in which, in the midst of the Cold War, on foreign policy people like Willy Brandt and Olaf Palme were proposing the zero armament objective.