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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 31 Aug 2000
• SIERRA LEONE / BRITAIN, Voice of America, 31 August 2000 -- Renegade soldiers in Sierra Leone freed five captured British troops late Wednesday, but six others are still being held by the group, known as the West Side Boys.
• Sierra Leonean rebels return seized armoured personnel carriers to UN, UN News, 31 August 2000 -- The rebel Revolutionary United Front (RUF) in Sierra Leone has returned six armoured personnel carriers to the United Nations, a spokesman for the world body announced today.
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY ISRAEL United Nations 31 Aug 2000
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF YUGOSLAVIA United Nations 31 Aug 2000
• Team arrives in Nigeria to help train peacekeepers, Stars and Stripes, 31 August 2000 -- A Special Forces "A-Team" has arrived in Nigeria, the first of what is expected to be a several hundred-strong contingent of Green Berets tasked with training West African nations bound for peacekeeping duties in war-torn Sierra Leone.
• U.S. Statement to OSCE on Serbian Elections, Stambolic Abduction, U.S. Mission to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, 31 August 2000 -- The August 25 abduction of former Serbian President Ivan Stambolic is "yet another example of the climate of fear and intimidation in the FRY" [Federal Republic of Yugoslavia], U.S. Ambassador David T. Johnson told the Permanent Council of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Vienna.
• PHILLIPINES HOSTAGES, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE DAILY PRESS BRIEFING, 31 August 2000 -- Mr. Schilling a Muslim; suffers long-term health problems, should be released. US opposes ransom. He is being held against his will.
• SAF / HOSTAGES, Voice of America, 31 August 2000 -- The two South Africans among the hostages released in the Philippines have returned home.
• Annan says 19 States ready to send troops to UN Mission in Ethiopia, Eritrea, UN News, 31 August 2000
• ZIMBABWE / CONGO, Voice of America, 31 August 2000 -- The Zimbabwe government has revealed the full cost of its participation in the civil war in Congo- Kinshasa, and the figure is far higher than expected - more than one-quarter of a billion dollars since 1998.
• Security Council members welcome signing of Burundi accord, UN News, 31 August 2000
• UN in Angola welcomes official move to help resettle displaced people, UN News, 31 August 2000 -- The resettlement effort, which began on 5 August, is transferring displaced people from 15 transit centres -- five of which have already been emptied and closed -- to sites in the nearby villages of Cantão Pahula and Cassoco, the UN Office said in a statement released in Luanda.
• AFGHANISTAN IN CRISIS, Voice of America, 31 August 2000 -- A conversation about the situation in Afghanistan with Karl Inderfurth, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for South Asian Affairs.

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