Liberia: UN brings forward deadline for ending disarmament to 30 October

The head of the UN mission in Liberia said on Wednesday that the war-scarred country's disarmament programme would officially end on October 30 and any former fighters found with weapons after then would be prosecuted. "We obviously want to disarm everyone. We are now looking at the date of 30 October as the end of the programme," Jacques Klein, the UN Secretary General's Special Representative in Liberia, told reporters.