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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR THE SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 07 Sep 2000
• Security Council leaders resolve to strengthen UN peacekeeping, UN News, 07 September 2000 -- Meeting at the level of heads of State and Government for only the second time in its history, the Security Council today resolved to strengthen the central role of the United Nations in peacekeeping, and pledged to take concrete steps to achieve that goal.
• Security Council leaders articulate vision for more effective peacekeeping, UN News, 07 September 2000 -- Leaders from the 15 members of the Security Council, in a summit meeting today, articulated a vision of a more effective collective endeavour to maintain international peace and security in a debate which addressed fundamental issues of conflict prevention, more effective peacekeeping, intervention in the internal affairs of a State and Council reform.
• Secretary-General, Addressing Council Summit On International Peace, Security, Stresses Council Responsibility For Adequate Support of Peacekeepers, UN Press Release, 07 September 2000 -- ...We all recognize that too often in the peacekeeping operations of the past decade, the path to failure was paved with good intentions and inadequate mandates.
• U-S/NIGERIA/MILITARY, Voice of America, 07 September 2000 -- In Nigeria, U-S military personnel have completed the first phase of training on one of five Nigerian combat battalions destined for peacekeeping service in Sierra Leone.
• SIERRA LEONE / BRITAIN, Voice of America, 07 September 2000 -- British paratroopers have arrived in Sierra Leone amid continuing efforts for the release of six British troops held by renegade militiamen.
• NIGERIA/SIERRA LEONE, Voice of America, 07 September 2000 -- U-S troops are in Nigeria training soldiers to help end the rebel insurgency in neighboring Sierra Leone.
• Statement By Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright - Attack on UNHCR Offices In West Timor, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 07 September 2000 -- ...I again call on the Indonesian Government to take immediate action to restore order, ensure the safety and welfare of all refugees and remaining foreign nationals, and bring the perpetrators of this violence to justice without delay.
• TIMOR / U-N EVAC, Voice of America, 07 September 2000 -- The United Nations has evacuated nearly 200- humanitarian workers from Indonesia's West Timor province after militiamen killed three aid workers Wednesday.
• Statement By The President - Attack on UNHCR Offices In West Timor, The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, 07 September 2000 -- ...The government of Indonesia must live up to its commitments to restore order and to ensure the safety and welfare of all refugees and foreign nationals.
• West Timor: UN evacuates staff, mourns slain relief workers, UN News, 07 September 2000 -- Following yesterday's murder of three United Nations staff members in West Timor, the UN Transitional Administration in East Timor (UNTAET) said today that it had evacuated some 140 relief workers from two West Timorese towns.
• U-N-CLERIDES, Voice of America, 07 September 2000 -- Cypriot President Glafcos Clerides is calling for the U-N Security Council to re-affirm the parameters for a solution to the Cyprus problem.
• Press Conference By President Of Cyprus, UN Press Briefing, 07 September 2000 -- The current rapprochement between Turkey and Greece was not sufficient in itself to solve the Cyprus problem, the President of Cyprus, Glafcos Clerides, told correspondents this morning at a press conference.
• PRESS CONFERENCE BY PRIME MINISTER OF ISRAEL United Nations 07 Sep 2000
• Security Council calls for "accelerated withdrawal" of foreign forces from DRC, UN News, 07 September 2000 -- Expressing its deep concern at the continuation of hostilities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the Security Council today called for "the accelerated withdrawal" of Ugandan and Rwandan forces and of all other foreign contingents from the country.
• U-N / CHECHNYA, Voice of America, 07 September 2000 -- The U-N refugee agency says tens-of-thousands of Chechen refugees are due to spend a second harsh winter in the neighboring Russian republic of Ingushetia.
• Headquarters Press Conference By President Of Afghanistan, UN Press Briefing, 07 September 2000 -- The people of Afghanistan were suffering from "an imposed war" and an invading force backed by Pakistan and a coalition of terrorists and fanatics, that country's President, Burhanuddin Rabbani, told correspondents at a Headquarters press conference this morning.

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• 99TH SPACE SHUTTLE MISSION TO SERVICE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION Lockheed Martin 07 Sep 2000 -- The 99th Space Shuttle mission — STS-106, featuring the orbiter Atlantis and a crew of seven (five astronauts and two cosmonauts) — is scheduled for launch from Kennedy Space Center to the International Space Station at 7:45 a.m. Central Standard Time on Friday, September 8. The launch window is tight – only 2? minutes.