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• Norway Selects Team Of Bazan And Lockheed Martin To Provide New Frigate For Royal Norwegian Navy Lockheed Martin 29 Feb 2000 -- The Norwegian Ministry of Defence announced that a team led by shipbuilder Empresa Nacional Bazan (E.N. Bazan) of Spain was selected to provide the Royal Norwegian Navy with a new frigate designed to protect the country against subsurface, surface and air threats.

Other Conflicts

• 29 February 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 29 Feb 2000
• PRESS CONFERENCE ON SMALL ARMS United Nations 29 Feb 2000
• OSCE Media Rep Urges Charges Against Babitsky Be Dropped 29 February 2000 -- Freimut Duve, the representative on freedom of the media for the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), has welcomed the news that Radio Liberty reporter Andrei Babitsky has returned to Russia but remains concerned that Babitsky is still under criminal investigation for "falsifying documents."
• Text: U.S. Statement on Chechnya to OSCE Permanent Council 29 February 2000 -- "The U.S. welcomes the appointment of Vladimir Kalamanov as Special Presidential Representative for Human Rights in Chechnya," the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) was told February 29 in Vienna. "It is vital that his work be seen by the international community as transparent and objective."
• CHECHNYA: U.S. HELPS FUND RED CROSS EFFORTS IN NORTH CAUCASUS REGION February 29, 2000 -- Responding to an emergency appeal by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United States announced February 29 that it has provided $2.4 million to support ICRC activities related to the conflict in Chechnya.
• U-N / CHECHNYA AID Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- The United Nations says a 10-truck convoy of relief supplies has reached the Chechen capital, Grozny. This is the first U-N aid to reach Grozny since Russia began its military offensive more than five-months ago.
• RUSSIA / CHECHNYA Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- Russia's military says its troops have taken full control of the last mountain rebel stronghold, Shatoi, 60 kilometers south of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
• BABITSKY FREED Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- A news reporter detained by Russian forces in Chechnya more than one month ago says he was held in a notorious prison comparable to the gulags of the Stalin era.
• PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL IN BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA United Nations 29 Feb 2000
• U-N BOSNIA BRIEFING Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- The top United Nations official in Bosnia, Jacques Klein, said today (Tuesday) that Serbia's President Slobodan Milosevic remains the major obstacle to stability in the region.
• SUDAN'S WAR Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- Sudan's foreign minister says his government is ready for unconditional talks with the exiled opposition, a first step toward ending the seventeen-year civil war that has convulsed the North African country.
• NIGERIA VIOLENCE Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- In Nigeria, three states have agreed to abandon their experiment with Sharia law, and to reinstate Nigeria's civil code as the only law within their borders. The move came Tuesday after another round of sectarian violence between Christians and Muslims claimed dozens of lives in the southeastern part of the country.
• WAHID / EAST TIMOR Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid has apologized to the people of East Timor for the often-harsh rule imposed by Indonesian troops who occupied the territory for nearly a quarter-century.
• INDONESIA / IRIAN JAYA Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- Even as Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid was visiting East Timor Tuesday, unrest was reported in another trouble spot. Fresh clashes broke out between separatists and Indonesian police in the far province of Irian Jaya.
• ERITREANS FOR PEACE Voice of America 29 February 2000 -- Eritreans throughout the world marched for peace in their homeland on Tuesday. At peace rallies in dozens of cities, they called for an end to a border conflict with Ethiopia.

News Reports

• Sea Launch Sets Sail for Second Commercial Mission Boeing 29 Feb 2000 -- The Sea Launch Commander and the Odyssey Launch Platform departed the Sea Launch Home Port in Long Beach Harbor on February 27, for the Sea Launch Company's second commercial satellite launch, planned for March 12.