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• INDONESIA - WIRANTO Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- Indonesia's Defense Minister says today (Friday) he has called on General Wiranto, the former head of the Armed Forces to resign from the presidential cabinet.

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• 4 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 04 Feb 2000
• U-S / RUSSIA JOURNALIST Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- The United States has expressed outrage at reports that Russia may have traded a journalist working for a U-S radio Station for captive Russian soldiers in Chechnya.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA WITHDRAWAL Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- A senior Russian general says the number of troops deployed in Chechnya will be reduced, now that the regional capital, Grozny, is in almost completely in government hands.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA / JOURNALIST Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- Russian television has broadcast pictures of a controversial exchange in which a Radio Liberty journalist arrested in Chechnya was apparently handed over to rebels in a swap for Russian soldiers.
• Kavkaz-Tsentr reports: February 4th, 2000 -- Kavkaz-Tsentr's correspondent, who left Dzhokhar together with the units of the armed forces of the ChRI, reports that the last detachments of the Mujahideen have now reached their new positions. Shamil Basayev once again confirmed that the redeployment has been carried out successfully.
• Lebanon-Israel Monitoring Group Considers Thirty Complaints USIA 4 February 2000 -- The Lebanon-Israel Monitoring Group met February 2-3, 2000, in Naqura, Lebanon, to consider thirty complaints of violation of the April 26, 1996 Understanding, fourteen filed by Israel and sixteen filed by Lebanon.
• SRI LANKA INDEPENDENCE Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga has called upon all Sri Lankans to help her find peace, saying she believed the country was finally on the right track to solving ethnic problems.
• NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- Northern Ireland's power-sharing government was formed only nine weeks ago, and now it is very close to being suspended indefinitely.
• SREBRENICA SURVIVORS / U-N Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- The United Nations is reacting cautiously to complaints against Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other top U-N officials, by survivors of the 1995 Serb massacre of Muslims in Srebrenica.
• U-N-H-C-R / ZAMBIA Voice of America 04 February 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says about eight-thousand refugees from war-torn Angola are trapped in a remote, dangerous border area of Zambia.

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• Holbrooke Intends to Keep Emphasis on Africa By Judy Aita USIA 4 February 2000 -- Although his efforts to put Africa at the center stage of the Security Council for what he termed "the Month of Africa" have ended, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke is already saying that 2000 must be the "year of Africa."
• THE MONTH OF AFRICA: AIDS, DROC ON 'THE FRONTBURNER' AT THE UN Foreign Media Reaction 04 February 2000 -- The U.S.-initiated Month of Africa at the UN Security Council sparked commentary--mostly accolades--from around the globe. But writers judged that the real litmus test of U.S. and international concern about the continent will be in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DROC). Several writers determined that the UN has been "reluctant" to intervene there because of a "double standard," devoting resources to the resolution of European and Asian conflicts to the detriment of those in Africa and because of a fear, deemed "not without reason" of becoming imbroiled in an African "quagmire" binding troops for years.