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February 2000 Security News

  • PRESS CONFERENCE ON NARCOTICS CONTROL BOARD REPORT United Nations 23 Feb 2000
  • AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM CONCLUDES FOURTH SESSION; APPROVES REPORT Press Release L/2946 - 18 February 2000 -- Several delegations supported the convening of the conference on terrorism, while some expressed doubt about its practical benefits.
  • AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM APPROVES INTRODUCTORY SEGMENT OF DRAFT REPORT Press Release L/2945 - 18 February 2000 -- Several representatives called for further mention in the report of a distinction between acts of liberation and terrorism. The representative of the United States said he regretted the reintroduction of the long disputed notion that an act of terrorism was not terrorism if parties one supported had committed it.
  • AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM HEARS REPORT ON CONSULTATIONS ON DRAFT CONVENTION ON SUPPRESSION OF ACTS OF NUCLEAR TERRORISM Press Release L/2944 - 17 February 2000 -- Coordinator Cate Steains (Australia) said that the differences in position still being expressed by delegations had led her to conclude that the time was not yet ripe for open-ended informal consultations to reach agreement on a text.
  • GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM CONTINUES DEBATE ON PROPOSED HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE Press Release L/2943 - 16 February 2000 -- The Ad Hoc Committee, established by General Assembly resolution 51/210 of 17 December 1996, has been elaborating anti-terrorism instruments on a step-by- step basis, including the 1997 Convention for the Supression of Terrorist Bombings and the 1999 Convention for the Supression of the Financing of Terrorism.
  • GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM DISCUSSES POSSIBLE HIGH-LEVEL CONFERENCE Press Release L/2942 - 15 February 2000 -- The United States was skeptical about the practical benefits and the likelihood of concrete results from the envisaged international conference on terrorism, its representative told the General Assembly's Ad Hoc Committee on terrorism this morning.
  • GENERAL ASSEMBLY'S AD HOC COMMITTEE ON TERRORISM BEGINS FOURTH SESSION Press Release L/2940 - 14 February 2000 -- Committee is expected to consider the outstanding issues relating to the draft anti-nuclear terrorism instrument, and the question of convening a high-level United Nations conference to formulate an organized response by the international community to terrorism.
  • BRITAIN / HIJACK ENDS Voice of America 10 February 2000 -- Twenty-one people on board the hijacked Afghan airliner were arrested early Thursday morning in London after all the hostages were released unharmed.
  • AFGHAN HIJACK / TALEBAN REACT Voice of America 10 February 2000 -- Taleban authorities in Afghanistan say they are grateful to Britain for bringing the hijacking of an Afghan airlines plane to a peaceful end.
  • BRITAIN / HIJACK Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Police officials at Stansted Airport, outside London, say the situation on a hijacked Afghan airliner is again calm. Tensions mounted after four crewmembers made a daring night-time escape from the aircraft.
  • AFGHAN ARRESTS Voice of America 09 February 2000 -- Afghanistan's Taleban authorities have detained several people suspected of involvement in Sunday's hijacking of an Afghan airlines plane to London.
  • BRAZIL-DRUGS-ANGOLA Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Police in Rio de Janeiro have launched a major operation to crack down on drug-related violence in a large slum area of the city, and to investigate reports that Angolan mercenaries are training drug dealers in military tactics.
  • BRITAIN / HIJACK Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- Hijackers holding some 150 people hostage on an Afghan airliner at a London airport have released a 45-year-old man while negotiations to end the hostage crisis continue non-stop.
  • AFGHAN PLANE Voice of America 08 February 2000 -- The Taleban's supreme leader in Afghanistan has criticized what he calls international silence over the hijacking of an Afghan airliner.
  • AFGHAN PLANE / TALEBAN Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- Taleban Supreme Leader Mullah Mohammed Omar blames the military commander of the opposition Northern Alliance - Amad Shah Masood - for the incident.
  • BRITAIN / HIJACK Voice of America 07 February 2000 -- More hostages have been released from a hijacked Afghan airliner sitting at a London airport since early in the day.
  • AFGHAN HIJACK Voice of America 06 February 2000 -- The Ariana Air Boeing 727 jet was on the ground in Moscow a little more than three and a half hours. It lifted off into a snow-filled ski shortly before one-thirty Monday morning heading west.
  • AFGHAN HIJACK Voice of America 06 February 2000 -- A hijacked Afghan airliner with more than 150 people on board has left Moscow for somewhere in Europe.



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