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• DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 23 Oct 2000
• Annan presents detailed action plan for improving UN peace operations, UN News, 23 October 2000 -- Issuing a detailed action plan to follow up on recent proposals by an international panel of experts, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today the UN was taking steps to enhance the performance of its peace operations but needed sufficient resources to do the job properly.
• General Assembly demands end to violence in occupied Palestinian territory, UN News, 23 October 2000 -- Condemning the recent violence in the occupied Palestinian territory, the United Nations General Assembly has demanded an end to the use of force and urged all parties to implement the understandings they reached at the Sharm el-Sheikh summit in Egypt.
• Mideast Violence / Britain, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- Britain is calling on both Israel and the Palestinians to show restraint and resume peace talks.
• Arab Summit - React, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- Many in the Arab world are reacting with a mixture of disappointment and resignation to the two-day Arab summit meeting that ended Sunday in Egypt.
• Palestinian Worker - Profile, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- Deadly confrontations between Israelis and Palestinians are now into their fourth week, with about 125 people killed, almost all of them Palestinians.
• Clinton / Mideast, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- The White House is continuing to press the leaders of Israel and the Palestinians to implement pledges made to President Clinton last week at the Sharm El-Sheikh summit to defuse the Mideast crisis.
• Israel / Palestinians, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is trying form a national emergency government, after nearly one month of clashes between Israeli forces and Palestinians.
• Chechen President Urged To Resign, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part I, 23 October 2000 -- Speaking on Chechen television on 21 October, interim Chechen administration head Akhmed-hadji Kadyrov again called on President Aslan Maskhadov to resign and go into exile, ITAR-TASS reported.
• Russian Military To Change Tactics In Chechnya, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part I, 23 October 2000 -- Russian military spokesmen in Chechnya told Interfax on 21 October that they will increase the number of checkpoints in lowland regions of Chechnya in anticipation that Chechen fighters will descend from the southern mountains to spend the coming winter in the plains.
• PRESS BRIEFING ON KOSOVO COMMISSION United Nations 23 Oct 2000
• Gore Suggests U.S. Would Stay In Bosnia, Kosova Under His Administration, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part II, 23 October 2000 -- Democratic candidate and Vice President Al Gore told Reuters by telephone on 21 October that "without U.S. participation in peacekeeping missions, we would no longer be able to continue U.S. leadership of NATO."
• Will U.S. Have Limited Role In Balkans?, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part II, 23 October 2000 -- Condoleeza Rice, who is senior national security adviser to Republican presidential candidate and Texas Governor George W. Bush, told "The New York Times" of 21 October that Bush would like peacekeeping in the Balkans to become a European responsibility within a "new division of labor" in NATO.
• Kostunica Pays Controversial Visit To Bosnia...Makes Gesture To Kosovars, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part II, 23 October 2000 -- Kostunica asked officials of the Justice Ministry to begin proceedings to pardon and free from prison ethnic Albanian human rights activist Flora Brovina
• Kostunica Working On Setting Up Yugoslav Government, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part II, 23 October 2000 -- Kostunica began talks with Montenegrin leaders in Podgorica on 22 October about the formation of a new Yugoslav government.
• SERBIAN OPPOSITION READY TO RELAUNCH STREET PROTESTS?, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part II, 23 October 2000 -- Talks between supporters of Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica and backers of his predecessor, Slobodan Milosevic, are slated to begin again in Belgrade on 23 October.
• Serbia / Government, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- The ruling Socialist Party of ousted Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic has agreed to a new transitional government for Yugoslavia's main republic, Serbia.
• UN envoy holds meetings in Cyprus to prepare for next round of talks, UN News, 23 October 2000 -- A top-level United Nations official held a series of meetings in Cyprus today following up on the latest round of talks on the divided island and preparing for upcoming negotiations.
• Kostunica visits Bosnia, meets with political leaders, Stars and Stripes, 23 October 2000 -- Yugoslavia's new president averted a diplomatic debacle by meeting Bosnia's political leaders Sunday, defusing anger over a decision to use his first visit to the country to attend the reburial of a prominent Serb poet.
• Independence leader elected speaker of East Timor National Council, UN News, 23 October 2000 -- East Timorese independence leader Xanana Gusmao today was elected speaker of the East Timor National Council, a precursor of the nation's parliament, which held its first session today after replacing the National Consultative Council.
• Guterres to be Freed, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- An Indonesian court has ruled that East Timorese militia leader Eurico Guterres should be released from jail on the grounds that his arrest earlier this month was illegal.
• U.S. Team to Attend OAU Talks in Algiers on Ethiopia/Eritrea, U.S. Department of State, Office of the Spokesman, 23 October 2000 -- The President's Special Representative for Ethiopia and Eritrea, former National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, will lead a U.S. team to attend negotiations sponsored by the Organization of African Unity beginning on October 23 in Algiers regarding a peaceful resolution to the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
• UN observers take up forward positions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, UN News, 23 October 2000 -- United Nations military observers were sent today to key forward positions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, in a deployment that would complete the second stage of a three-phase peacekeeping operation set up by the UN Security Council last July.
• Ivory Coast Elections/Observers, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- In Ivory Coast, voters went to the polls Sunday, in an election that was largely outside the scrutiny of international observers. The one major observer group that did monitor the polls, a European Union team, is preparing to release its findings, which are likely to cite irregularities occurring in the weeks leading up to the election.
• Ivory Coast-Elections, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- Soldiers in Ivory Coast have fired teargas on opposition demonstrators (Monday) as the government continues to delay announcing the results of Sunday's presidential election.
• DRC - Fighting, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- Reports say the army of the Democratic Republic of Congo is stepping up its military offensive against rebel forces and their Rwandan allies.
• US/Angola/Savimbi, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- A senior U-S defense official says the Clinton Administration has rebuffed Angolan government requests for help in tracking down fugitive UNITA rebel leader Jonas Savimbi.
• W-F-P - Sierra Leone, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- The U-N's World Food Program, W-F-P, says it has been able to deliver food to several thousands of people in a previously inaccessible part of Sierra Leone.
• Karabakh Cease-Fire Violated, RFE/RL Newsline Vol. 4, No. 205, Part I, 23 October 2000 -- Two Azerbaijani servicemen were wounded late on 19 October
• Lanka Fighting, Voice of America, 23 October 2000 -- Sri Lanka's Navy and Air Force have suffered heavy damage in a Tamil rebel attack on the eastern Trincomalee Harbor. Two sailors died and a Navy ship and helicopter gunship were lost in the fighting.

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