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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 15 Jun 2000
• Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and Their Implications for Policy June 15, 2000
• Press Briefing on the report "Economic Causes of Civil Conflict and Their Implications for Policy" June 15, 2000 We've had during the 1990s 39 conflicts, major ones, meaning with at least 1,000 deaths per conflict in any one year. More than 4 million people have been killed in violent conflicts since the fall of the Berlin Wall. Of the 27 conflicts that were taking place in '99, 25 of them were internal, which shows the changing nature of conflict.
• Greed For Diamonds and Other "Lootable' Commodities Fuels Civil Wars June 15, 2000 - New World Bank research suggests that civil wars are more often fuelled by rebel groups competing with national governments for control of diamonds, coffee, and other valuable primary commodities, rather than by political, ethnic, or religious differences.
• CIVIL WAR / DIAMONDS Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- The World Bank has issued a new report suggesting civil wars are more often fueled by economics than by political, ethnic or religious differences.
• PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO United Nations 15 Jun 2000
• SECURITY COUNCIL MEETS ON SITUATION IN DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO Press Release SC/6876 - 15 June 2000 -- Continuing hostilities in the Equateur and Kasai provinces of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, uninterrupted violence in Kivu and heavy fighting between foreign armies in the city of Kisangani were among the key elements of the Congolese crisis, the President of the Security Council said this afternoon.
• CONGO - UN PEACKEEPERS Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- Secretary General's special representative for Congo-Kinshasa, Kamel Morjane (mor jahn), said he has asked the Security Council to consider additional means, including more peacekeepers, to fulfill the U-N mission in the war-torn country.
• Text: Ambassador Holbrooke's UNSC Remarks on the DRC 15 June 2000 -- Let the world see that the United Nations is not turning away from Africa, U.S. Ambassador Richard Holbrooke said at the beginning of two days of Security Council meetings on peace efforts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) with senior officials from the region.
• SECURITY COUNCIL/ CONGO Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- The United Nations is focusing its attention on Congo-Kinshasa where the first of two days of talks with the signatories to the 1999 Lusaka peace agreement - the so-called "political committee" - is underway.
• BRITAIN / SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- British troops are leaving Sierra Leone one month after they were dispatched to bolster U-N peacekeeping operations and help evacuate British nationals. About 200 soldiers will remain to help train new recruits for Sierra Leone's army.
• ISRAEL / LEBANON Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- Israeli soldiers have fired warning shots near a United Nations team trying to map the tense border with southern Lebanon.
• ETHIOPIA / ERITREA Voice of America 15 June 2000 -- A ceasefire in the border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea appears to be holding.

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