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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 19 May 2000
• U-N / SIERRA LEONE TROOPS Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council increased the total troop strength for its peacekeeping mission in the west African nation of Sierra Leone.
• SIERRA LEONE / FUTURE Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- Sierra Leone's government says it is looking for what it calls a "middle course" as it decides what to do with rebel leader Foday Sankoh, who was taken into government custody on Wednesday.
• SIERRA LEONE / U-N Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- 334 peacekeepers are still being held by the rebels, and the United Nations says as many as 40 of them may be seriously injured.
• SECURITY COUNCIL EXPANDS SIERRA LEONE FORCE TO 13,000, ADOPTING RESOLUTION 1299 (2000) UNANIMOUSLY Press Release SC/6864 - 19 May 2000 -- The Security Council this morning expanded the military component of the United Nations Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) to a maximum of 13,000 military personnel, including 260 military observers already deployed, convinced that the deterioration in security conditions on the ground necessitated its rapid reinforcement.
• Jesse Jackson and President Obasanjo Discuss Sierra Leone By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 19 May 2000 -- Nigeria and the United States are in close agreement on the need for both countries to remain committed to and engaged in working for a regional solution to continued "warlordism" in Sierra Leone.
• Jackson Lauds Nigeria for Positive Role in West African Crisis By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 19 May 2000 -- The Reverend Jesse Jackson, President Clinton and Secretary of State Albright's special envoy for the promotion of democracy in Africa, left Lagos May 19 for Liberia, the next stop on his mission to help end the crisis in Sierra Leone.
• Jackson Travels to Liberia for Discussions with Charles Taylor By Jim Fisher-Thompson Washington File 19 May 2000 -- Jesse Jackson, accompanied by Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Howard Jeter, the former special envoy to Liberia, arrived in Monrovia May 19 to explore with President Charles Taylor how the crisis in neighboring Sierra Leone might be ended on a lasting basis.
• Text: Clinton Authorizes Funds to Support U.N. in Sierra Leone 19 May 2000 -- President Clinton said he had authorized the Department of Defense to provide up to $20 million in defense goods and services to support efforts by the United Nations and other international forces to stabilize the situation in Sierra Leone.
• Congressional Lawmakers Examine Horn of Africa Crisis By Charles W. Corey Washington File 19 May 2000 -- Committee Chairman Benjamin Gilman (Republican of New York) set the tone for the hearing on the crisis in the region, by reminding guests and those testifying that the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is "inextricably linked to the famine."
• Fourth report of the Secretary-General on UNAMSIL S/2000/186 19 May 2000 -- The peace process suffered a very serious setback as the result of the recent unprovoked armed attacks on United Nations peacekeepers, the detention of several hundred United Nations personnel, and the destruction of disarmament and demobilization camps by fighters of the Revolutionary United Front (RUF). The present crisis commenced on 1 May, when RUF ex-combatants approached the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration reception centre at Makeni in a threatening manner and started firing in the air. There have also been incidents at various locations of RUF forcibly preventing its fighters from disarming. At the same time, UNAMSIL was about to deploy its forces to the area of Koidu, which is the centre of diamond mining operations conducted by RUF. This planned deployment may also have contributed to the decision of RUF to attack UNAMSIL in a possible test of its resolve.
• ETHIOPIA - ERITREA Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- Ethiopia says it has bombed Eritrea's main military training base and captured another town near the central front of their border war.
• U-N / ERITREA Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says thousands of Eritreans are fleeing to neighboring Sudan to escape renewed fighting with Ethiopia.
• U-N-H-C-R / SRI LANKA Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency (U-N-H-C-R) says it is concerned about thousands of Sri Lankan civilians who have been displaced by fighting between government and rebel troops in Jaffna peninsula.
• SRI LANKA - WAR Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- The Sri Lankan government says it has delivered new weapons systems to the northern Jaffna region as fierce fighting continues.
• NORTHERN IRELAND Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- Northern Ireland's Protestant leader, David Trimble, is urging his divided Ulster Unionist Party to accept a disarmament offer from the Irish Republican Army.
• FARC LAW 001: LAND REFORM/CONFISCATION OF FOREIGN PROPERTY 19 May 2000 -- The decree, promulgated in early May 2000, is pending implementation in the 130 municipalities currently under FARC's administration. According to FARC spokesman Raul Reyes, it will be enforced following "FARC's assumption of power
• Text: Sudan's SPLM Suspends Participation in Peace Talks 19 May 2000 -- State Department Spokesman Richard Boucher on May 18 expressed the United States' deep concern that the Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM) "has decided to suspend its participation in the peace talks, held under the sponsorship of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).

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• ZIMBABWE / HUNZVI Voice of America 19 May 2000 -- A Zimbabwe judge has fined the leader of the country's war veterans who invaded and occupied hundreds of white-owned farms. But a jail sentence was suspended.