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  • 20 March 2000 - DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 20 Mar 2000
  • ON THE SITUATION IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS SERGEI V. YASTRZHEMBSKY - aide to the RF Acting President -- 20 March 2000 -- Acting president Vladimir Putin arrived in Grozny's Severny Airport at 1:15 p.m. Moscow time today. He came on a Su-27 fighter, in the co-pilot's seat. He will attend several conferences there, as well as the ceremony of the withdrawal of a paratrooper regiment of the 98th Kostroma Division to its permanent deployment site in Kostroma.
  • RUSSIA / PUTIN Voice of America 20 March 2000 -- Acting Russian President Vladimir Putin has flown to Chechnya in a fighter jet to show support for federal troops just days before presidential elections.

  • Preparatory Commission For International Criminal Court Hears Statement By Former Yugoslavia Tribunal Judge, UN Press Release, 20 March 2000 -- As the Preparatory Commission for the International Criminal Court continued its work on formulating the rules and guidelines necessary for the eventual functioning of the Court, a judge from the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia described the Tribunal's practice and experience in some unresolved areas still under discussion within the Commission.
  • YUGOSLAV WAR CRIMES Voice of America 20 March 2000 -- War crimes prosecutors opened their case against three Bosnian Serbs charged with rape, torture and enslavement of Muslim women in 1992.
  • AFGHANISTAN-U-N Voice of America 20 March 2000 -- The United Nations special envoy to Afghanistan, Francesc (fran-sesk) Vendrell, says there are signs that a major military offensive may be impending in that country.

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