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  • DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 14 Jul 2000

  • UN aid officials in Angola condemn latest attack on youth centre, UN News, 14 July 2000 -- United Nations humanitarian officials in Angola today issued a strong condemnation of the latest attack by armed bandits on a children's centre in which one boy was killed, four youths injured and 21 other children abducted.
  • Annan appoints experts to investigate Angola sanctions' violations, UN News, 13 July 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan today announced the appointment of five experts to investigate violations of the sanctions imposed by the Security Council against the Angolan rebel National Movement for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA).

  • U-N-H-C-R / TIMOR, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, is urging Indonesian authorities to stop what it says are troublemakers in West Timor who are preventing East Timorese refugees from returning home.
  • UN refugee agency deplores ongoing violence in West Timor camps, UN News, 14 July 2000 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today denounced the continuing violence in camps for East Timorese refugees in West Timor and said the Indonesian Government's failure to live up to its commitments may force the UN agency to review its operations there.

  • Japan donates over $27 million for reconstruction effort in East Timor, UN News, 14 July 2000 -- In the largest contribution so far to the rehabilitation of infrastructure in East Timor, Japan today donated more than $27 million to assist the United Nations efforts in the newly independent territory.
  • Press Conference Sponsored By United States - East Timor, UN Press Briefing, 14 July 2000 -- The East Timorese refugee camps in West Timor presented a political crisis needing immediate resolution by concerted action of the United Nations, the United States and the Indonesian Government, correspondents were told yesterday afternoon at a Headquarters press conference. The press conference was sponsored by the United States Mission to the United Nations.

  • U-N-H-C-R / CONGO-KINSHASA, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says a deteriorating security situation in Congo- Kinshasa is creating enormous difficulties for aid workers who are trying to bring humanitarian assistance to thousands of refugees in neighboring Congo-Brazzaville.
  • MALUKU VIOLENCE, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- At least seven people have been killed and 12 wounded in the latest eruption of violence in Indonesia's eastern Maluku province.
  • U-N-H-C-R / LIBERIA REFUGEES, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it has suspended the repatriation of Liberian refugees who are in Guinea-Conakry because of renewed fighting along the border between rebels and Liberian government forces.
  • PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- In the southern Philippines, rebels from the Islamic extremist group, Abu Sayyaf, have freed a Malaysian hostage held with 19 others for almost 12 weeks.
  • U-N-WESTERN SAHARA, Voice of America, 14 July 2000 -- United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan is raising the possibility that there may have to be an alternative to a U-N plan for a referendum on Western Sahara.
  • Camp David II: 'Fierce Debates' Amid 'Pastoral Ambience', Foreign Media Reaction Reports, 14 July 2000 - Foreign media commentary on the week's events in the Camp David meetings between Arafat and Barak.
  • In Beirut, UN envoy discusses blue line violations, donor support for Lebanon, UN News, 14 July 2000 -- The United Nations Special Coordinator for the Middle East, Terje Roed-Larsen, today met with Lebanon's top leadership to discuss the "blue line" with Israel and donor efforts to alleviate the problems of the people of South Lebanon.
  • Insecurity on Guinea/Liberia border, in DR of Congo forces UNHCR to suspend work, UN News, 14 July 2000 -- The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) today announced that it had halted its repatriation operations in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to poor security situations in those countries.

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