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• Boeing Wins Aerospace Industry Award for JDAM Boeing 24 Feb 2000 -- The Boeing Company has received the Flight International Aerospace Industry Award 2000 for Military Aviation in recognition of achievements by the Joint Direct Attack Munition program.
• Airborne Laser Platform Modification Begins Boeing 24 Feb 2000 -- Boeing technicians in Wichita, Kan., begin to lower the cargo door of the 747-400 Freighter -- YAL-1A Attack Laser -- after the door pins were removed, which attached the door to the aircraft. This milestone, achieved earlier this month, is the first major step toward modifying the wide-body aircraft into the Airborne Laser war-fighter system.

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• 24 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 24 Feb 2000
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- Russia's Acting President Vladimir Putin says Moscow will not negotiate with Chechen representatives until rebel forces are defeated.
• CHECHNYA KILLINGS Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- International human rights groups are stepping up their criticism of alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops in Chechnya.

• U-N-CONGO MISSION APPROVED Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved an international military observer force to monitor the cease-fire in Congo-Kinshasa.
• SECURITY COUNCIL EXPANDS MISSION IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO, UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1291 (2000) Press Release SC/6809 - 24 February 2000 -- The Security Council this afternoon, stressing its commitment to the full implementation of the July 1999 Lusaka Ceasefire Agreement in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, extended the mandate of the United Nations Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC) to 31 August and authorized its expansion.
• RESOLUTION 1291 (2000) 24 February 2000 -- Authorizes the expansion of MONUC to consist of up to 5,537 military personnel, including up to 500 observers, or more, provided that the Secretary-General determines that there is a need and that it can be accommodated within the overall force size and structure, and appropriate civilian support staff in the areas, inter alia, of human rights, humanitarian affairs, public information, child protection, political affairs, medical support and administrative support.
• CONGO FORCE Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- The U-N Security Council is preparing to vote on sending more than five-thousand troops to monitor a cease-fire in Congo-Kinshasa.

• NIGERIA VIOLENCE Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- The death toll continues to rise in Kaduna, with some health officials saying at least 300 bodies have been recovered from the city's streets. Many were burned or hacked to death in three days of rioting between Christians and Muslims.
• TURKEY / KURDS Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- A Turkish court has sentenced 18 leaders of the pro-Kurdish People's Democracy Party - known as Hadep - to jail for staging a hunger strike in support of Kurdish separatist leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is rejecting Arab criticism of Israel's recent air strikes on targets in Lebanon.
• U-S - NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- The top negotiator for the Irish Republican Army's political wing, Sinn Fein, is blaming the crisis in the Northern Ireland peace process on Britain's decision to suspend the province's power-sharing government - a move he denounces as "illegal."
• U-N / AFRICA Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- The United Nations is preparing to repatriate thousands of Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees from camps in Sudan.
• COLOMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS Voice of America 24 February 2000 -- Colombia's armed forces have sharply denied allegations by Human Rights Watch that they support right-wing paramilitary groups, which are responsible for dozens of massacres of suspected sympathizers of leftist guerrillas.
• PRESS BRIEFING ON GUINEA-BISSAU United Nations 24 Feb 2000

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