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• 9 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING BY OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 09 Feb 2000
• PRESS BRIEFING BY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME United Nations 09 Feb 2000
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY FOREIGN MINISTER OF ARGENTINA United Nations 09 Feb 2000
• U-S / BABITSKY Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- The United States is calling on Russia to conduct an unbiased investigation into the disappearance of U-S radio reporter Andrei Babitsky.
• Text: RFE/RL's Babitsky Says on Tape He Wants to Go Home USIA 9 February 2000 -- Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty press release discusses the videotape delivered to the RFE/RL bureau in Moscow February 8 which shows correspondent Andrei Babitsky, who is purportedly in the hands of the Chechens, saying he wants to go home.
• RUSSIA TAKES GROZNY Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- After five months of intense fighting, Russians hoisted their flag above the Chechen capital. but the celebration hardly signifies the end of the civil war in the breakaway republic. Most of the rebels have fled to the mountains, much as they did four years ago before recapturing Grozny.
• CHECHNYA SCENE Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Russian forces in Chechnya are shifting their focus to the South, where rebel fighters fled after abandoning the capital, Grozny.
• CHECHNYA / BABITSKY Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- A reporter for Radio Liberty who has been missing in Chechnya has been heard from for the first time in three-weeks.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Military commanders in Russia say they will be using more powerful bombs in their attacks against Chechen fighters in the Caucasus Mountains.
• DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CAUCASUS AMID THE "BIG GAME" Russian Information Centre - 09.02.2000 -- The developments in the North Caucasus are linked with the strategic interests of many states and political forces, above all the Caspian oil, the important geo-strategic situation of the Caucasus, as well as the desire of some states to dominate in this region. In particular, NATO and the USA, seeking to win over certain Caucasian states, are encouraging them to take anti-Russian actions.
• UNICEF / ANGOLA REFUGEES Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- The United Nations is pushing this week to vaccinate nearly three-thousand Angolan children in a refugee camp in western Zambia.
• ANGOLA / WARNING Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- South Africa is expressing growing concern about the threat posed to regional stability by the ongoing conflict in Angola, despite statements by Angolan authorities that their forces are making rapid headway against the UNITA rebel movement led by Jonas Savimbi.
• MILITARY COMMUNIQUÉ - NO. 02/2000 THE NATIONAL UNION FOR THE TOTAL INDEPENDENCE OF ANGOLA [UNITA] 09 February 1999 -- During the period between the 10th of January and the 3rd of February, 2000, the UNITA Armed Forces for the Liberation of Angola "FALA" carried out the following military activities. During the period between the 10th of January 2000 and the 3rd of February 2000 the MPLA lost 882 men - dead.
• LEBANON RAID / ARAB REACT Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- The Israeli raid in Lebanon has drawn widespread condemnation from leaders in the Arab world, and concern among political analysts that it may further harm the stalled peace negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Israel's Foreign Minister is warning that "the soil of Lebanon will burn" if guerrillas fire rockets into northern Israel in retaliation for recent air raids.
• YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Judges at the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal have sent a Bosnian Croat back to jail after nine-months of freedom.
• INDONESIA / RIGHTS Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- A special Indonesian investigative commission on East Timor is citing members of the pro-independence movement, as well as the pro-Jakarta militias, for human rights violations.
• SERBIA SANCTIONS Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- The United States and Britain say they support a temporary lifting of the international ban on airline flights into Serbia, but only as part of tighter sanctions against the Belgrade government.
• WHO / INGUSHETIA Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- The World Health Organization, W-H-O, says there is a danger of tuberculosis spreading among Chechen refugees who have fled to the neighboring republic of Ingushetia.
• CAMBODIAN TRAIN Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- The war with the Khmer Rouge ended last year with the capture of the last remaining commander. Now, Cambodia is counting on the tourist trade to help rebuild its ravaged economy.
• BURUNDI FIGHTING Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Rebels in the central African nation of Burundi attacked a neighborhood on the outskirts of the capital.
• 4TH BRIGADE LIBERATES DETAINED MOTORISTS February 09, 2000 -- Reuters and Colombian National Radio reported that 4th Brigade Army troops have freed the hundreds of people detained by leftist rebels blockading the Medellin-Bogota highway. Military officials said at least 1,200 people, travelling aboard some 400 cars, buses and trucks, were caught in the blockade.
• ACTIVISTS MURDERED February 09, 2000 -- The U.S. Embassy in Jakarta and the Indonesian media have reported the murders of at least two activists in Aceh, and the disappearance of a witness to alleged military atrocities in the beleaguered province.

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• BRITAIN / HIJACK Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Police officials at Stansted Airport, outside London, say the situation on a hijacked Afghan airliner is again calm. Tensions mounted after four crewmembers made a daring night-time escape from the aircraft.
• AFGHAN ARRESTS Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Afghanistan's Taleban authorities have detained several people suspected of involvement in Sunday's hijacking of an Afghan airlines plane to London.