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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 21 Jul 2000
• U-N / DIAMONDS BAN, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- The head of the U-N Sanctions Committee on Angola, Robert Fowler, has expressed great satisfaction with the world diamond industry's decision to ban sales of "conflict diamonds" -- (which are) stones exported illegally from African war zones.
• Press Conference By Permanent Representative of Canada, UN Press Briefing, 21 July 2000 -- The resolution passed by the World Diamond Congress in Antwerp two days ago was remarkable, Robert Fowler, Canada's Permanent Representative to the United Nations told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this afternoon.
• Illicit Diamonds and Conflicts, The White House, Office of the Secretary, 21 July 2000 -- The United States has spearheaded a number of initiatives to curb the trade in illicit diamonds that fuels many African conflicts and humanitarian crises -- particularly in Sierra Leone, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• New UN report proposes measures to protect children in armed conflict, UN News, 21 July 2000 -- In his latest report to the Security Council on the subject of children and armed conflict, Secretary-General Kofi Annan identifies steps that could be taken by a wide range of national, regional and international actors to fulfil the international community's collective responsibilities towards children.
• YUGO WAR CRIMES, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- A Bosnian Croat who was sentenced to 10 years in prison for failing to prevent a rape has lost an appeal to the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal.
• MANDELA / BURUNDI, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- Government and rebel officials from Burundi have failed to reach agreement on a peace plan proposed by former South African President Nelson Mandela.
• UNHCR / CONGO REFUGEES, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- The United Nations Refugee Agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it has received reports of large numbers of refugees fleeing from Congo-Kinshasa to villages along the Ubangui River on the Congo-Brazzaville side of the river.
• PHILIPPINES HOSTAGES, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- In the southern Philippines, the Islamic extremist Abu Sayyaf group has freed four more Malaysian hostages, but 33 people remain captive.
• U-N-H-C-R / RWANDA REFUGEES, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it is concerned by what it calls a worrying increase in the number of Rwandan refugees arriving in Tanzania.
• U-N-H-C-R / TIMOR, Voice of America, 21 July 2000 -- The United Nations refugee agency, U-N-H-C-R, says it has closed its office in the West Timor border town of Betun because of increasing violence and harassment by pro-Indonesian forces.

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• HEADQUARTERS PRESS BRIEFING BY HUMANITARIAN COORDINATOR FOR GEORGIA United Nations 21 Jul 2000
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF CANADA United Nations 21 Jul 2000