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• 1 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 01 Feb 2000
• CHINA-INDONESIA-HUMAN RIGHTS Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- China says it opposes establishment of a United Nations tribunal to investigate allegations of Indonesian human rights atrocities in East Timor.
• INDONESIA / RIGHTS Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- Indonesia's former Armed Forces chief General Wiranto says he is not ready to resign his cabinet position, despite a report implicating him in last year's wave of violence in East Timor.
• INDONESIA-TIMOR REPORT REACT Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- Indonesia's ambassador to the United Nations, Makarim Wibisono, is disputing a U-N report accusing his country's military of involvement in human rights violations, and says there is no need for an international tribunal for East Timor.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- Chechen rebels say they have abandoned the capital, Grozny, in what they called a tactical retreat. But Russian officials say fighting is continuing.
• SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC NIKOLAI P. KOSHMAN - authorised representative of the Government of the Russian Federation in the Chechen Republic, Vice Premier of the RF Government 01.02.2000 -- The authorised mission of the Russian Federation's Government, as well as the interim Chechen republican administration were relocated to Gudermes January 18. Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree on establishing a government commission for aiding the Chechen Republic in restoring its economy and social sector.
• MOZAMBIQUE POLITICS Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- In Mozambique, the disgruntled leader of the country's main opposition party is threatening a civil disobedience campaign unless President Joachim Chissano agrees to talks on power-sharing.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is calling on Syria to help reduce the violence in southern Lebanon. But he says a recent escalation in the fighting should not be linked directly to peace negotiations with the Damascus government.
• U-N-H-C-R / CHECHNYA Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- The United Nations says more than two-thousand refugees each day are fleeing the war in Chechnya by crossing the border to neighboring Ingushetia.
• SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT CALLS ON COLOMBIAN REVOLUTIONARY GROUP TO HONOUR COMMITMENTS Press Release HR/4457 - 1 February 2000 -- The Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Olara A. Otunnu, has called on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) to honour its commitments concerning the recruitment and deployment of children in armed conflict.
• EPL TOP COMMANDER KILLED IN ACTION Tuesday, February 01, 2000 -- Hugo 'El Nene' Alberto Carvajal Aguilar, commander of the Popular Liberation Army, was killed during the weekend of January 28, 2000 in a skirmish with the 'Los Guanes' 5th Counter-guerrilla Battalion of the Colombian Army.

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• HABRE PROSECUTION Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- Witnesses have wrapped up their testimony in a Senegalese court where a judge will decide whether to prosecute former Chadian ruler Hissene Habre on charges of crimes against humanity.
• INDONESIA / WAHID Voice of America 01 February 2000 -- Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid is demanding the immediate resignation of his former military chief, General Wiranto, who now heads Indonesia's security ministry.