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13 March 2000 Military News

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Defense Industry

  • Boeing SLAM-ER Successfully Completes Operational Test Boeing 13 Mar 2000 -- The Boeing Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response has passed a critical milestone in its development by successfully completing Operational Test and Evaluation or OPEVAL.
  • GE F414-Powered F/A-18E/F Aircraft Awarded Collier Trophy GE Aviation 13 Mar 2000 -- The National Aeronautic Association (NAA) has awarded the Collier Trophy for 1999 to the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet multi-mission aircraft, powered by F414-GE-400 turbofan engines, acknowledging the aircraft as the most significant aeronautical achievement of the past year.

Other Conflicts

  • 13 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 13 Mar 2000

  • SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE CONCERNING SIERRA LEONE DISCUSSES BREACH OF SANCTIONS REGIME Press Release SC/6822 - 13 March 2000
  • SECURITY COUNCIL STRESSES NEED FOR DISARMAMENT, DEMOBILIZATION AND REINTEGRATION OF EX-COMBATANTS IN SIERRA LEONE Press Release SC/6821 - 13 March 2000 -- The Security Council was told today that the main steps to be taken in Sierra Leone should include the early disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of all ex-combatants; the extension of State authority throughout the country; national reconciliation and democratization; and improvement of the country's capacity to ensure its own security.
  • U-N-SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 13 March 2000 -- Sierra Leone's rebel leader Foday Sankoh came under heavy criticism Monday at a meeting of the United Nations Security Council.

  • ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY 13.03.2000 -- For actually about a week, there have been two centres of resistance there - the settlement of Komsomolskoye (we'll talk about it later) and the area of Urus-Kert and Selmentauzen. The resistance in the second area has been virtually suppressed, and the region has been mopped up. But a medium-large group of some 40-50 fighters was detected 15 km outside Selmentauzen to the south, which is being liquidated now. As for Komsomolskoye, the battle is still raging there.
  • RUSSIA / COUNCIL OF EUROPE Voice of America 13 March 2000 -- The Council of Europe has accused Russian troops and Chechen rebels of war crimes and has condemned Russia's destruction of the Chechen capital, Grozny.
  • RUSSIA / CHECHNYA CAPTURE Voice of America 13 March 2000 -- Russian special forces have captured prominent Chechen rebel commander Salman Raduyev and brought him to Moscow to face terrorism charges.

  • NIGERIA / KADUNA Voice of America 13 March 2000 -- Three weeks after sectarian violence in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna that killed hundreds of people, thousands of ethnic Ibo Christians remain camped in the city's main police barracks, unwilling or unable to return to their homes.
  • ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 13 March 2000 -- Israeli warplanes have raided suspected guerrilla targets in southern Lebanon and pounded the bases of radical Palestinian groups near the Syrian border.
  • YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES Voice of America 13 March 2000 -- Prosecutors at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal in The Hague have started laying out their case against a Bosnian Serb general charged with genocide.

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