The hands of Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown are seen as he speaks to journalists outside the Scottish Office in Edinburgh, Scotland, May 3, 2007. Brown held talks with Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain, Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) Leader Ian Paisley and Sinn Fein's Martin McGuinness, on the day that the Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF), the most lethal of Northern Ireland's Protestant paramilitary groups, said it would put its weapons beyond reach and that it would adopt a "non-military" role. REUTERS/Toby Melville (BRITAIN)