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• Arriving in Tel Aviv, Annan says bloodshed must stop, peace talks begin, UN News, 07 October 2000 -- Arriving in Tel Aviv today on an urgent mission to help in diffusing the Middle East crisis, Secretary-General Kofi Annan urged all parties involved - from leaders to ordinary citizens - to say no to violence and to shift the action from the street to the negotiating table.
• Holbrooke's Remarks On UN Resolution On Mideast Violence, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 07 October 2000 -- We are deeply troubled by the violence and confrontations of the past week. As Secretary Albright said in Sharm al-Sheikh, "there have been too many funerals, too much sorrow, too many tears shed and too many lives shattered. This must not be the future for Israelis and Palestinians."
• U-N / Mideast, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council today (Saturday) approved a resolution that, without naming Israel, condemns the excessive use of force against Palestinians.
• ISRAEL/CLASHES, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Barak has given Palestinian leader, Yasser Arafat 48 hours to stop the clashes in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
• UNICEF Mideast Violence, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- The United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, says it is concerned about the long term impact of the Israeli-Palestinian clashes on children in the West Bank and Gaza.
• ISRAEL - PALESTINIANS, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- Israel has confirmed that Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon have captured three Israeli soldiers.
• UN-MIDEAST, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- The United Nations Security Council resumes closed-door talks later today (Saturday) in an attempt to reach agreement on a resolution dealing with the violence in the Middle East.
• Security Council Deplores 28 September Provocation In Jerusalem, Adopting Resolution 1322 (2000) By 14-0-1, UN Press Release, 07 October 2000 -- The Security Council this evening deplored the provocation carried out at Al-Haram Al-Sharif in Jerusalem on 28 September, and subsequent violence there and throughout the territories occupied by Israel since 1967, which had resulted in more than 80 Palestinian deaths.
• Secretary-General, Alarmed By Middle East Violence, Appeals For Restraint, UN Press Release, 07 October 2000 -- The Secretary-General is alarmed by the situation on the ground in the Middle East, where the violence in the occupied territories between Palestinians and Israelis has spread to the border between Israel and Lebanon and the Shaba farms area of the Golan Heights.
• YUGOSLAVIA/STREET REACTION, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- A report on how the Yugoslav people are reflecting on the tumultuous days that brought down the regime of Slobodan Milosevic.
• Yugo-President, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- Mr. Kostunica lays down his plan to protect the Yugoslav Federation which includes independent minded Montenegro and U-N administered Kosovo.
• KOSTUNICA INAGUARATION, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- A conversation with VOA Balkans correspondent Eve Conant on the situation in Belgrade prior to the swearing-in ceremony for president-elect Vojislav Kostunica.
• Kofi Annan welcomes "momentous" change in Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, UN News, 07 October 2000 -- Secretary-General Kofi Annan and other top United Nations officials today welcomed the political transition that has taken place in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and expressed their readiness to help the new government solidify democracy.
• INDONESIA-IRIAN JAYA, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- At least 21 people are dead in the remote Indonesian province of Irian Jaya, after police clashed with independence supporters.
• SRI LANKA ELECTION SCENESETTER, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- Voters in Sri Lanka go to the polls Tuesday to choose a new Parliament.
• LEBANON / HEZBOLLAH, Voice of America, 07 October 2000 -- The violence along Lebanon's border with Israel has escalated with claims by the radical Muslim movement Hezbollah that it has seized several Israeli soldiers.

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