American Chechnya Committee In Peace
January
1111--01/22/03 U.S. Providing $1 Million Voluntary Contribution to Inter-American Committee Against Terrorism (CICTE) ... 1111--01/02/03 Meeting of the Shipping Coordinating Committee Facilitation Committee - January 14 ... 1111--01/23/03 Sudan: As Peace Talks Resume, Parties Must Abide by the Cease Fire Agreement ... [Read More]
Significant Terrorist Incidents 1961-2003: A Brief Chronology
RUF Attacks on U.N. Mission Personnel, May 1, 2000: On 1 May in Makeni, Sierra Leone, Revolutionary United Front (RUF) militants kidnapped at least 20 members of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Sierra Leone (UNAMSIL) and surrounded and opened fire on a UNAMSIL facility, according to press reports. The militants killed five UN soldiers in the attack. RUF militants kidnapped 300 UNAMSIL peacekeepers throughout the country, according to press reports. On 15 May in Foya, Liberia, the kidnappers released 139 hostages. On 28 May, on the Liberia and Sierra Leone border, armed militants released unharmed the last of the UN peacekeepers. In Freetown, according to press reports, armed militants ambushed two military vehicles carrying four journalists. A Spaniard and one U.S. citizen were killed in a May 25 car bombing in Freetown for which the RUF was probably responsible. Suspected RUF rebels also kidnapped 21 Indian UN peacekeepers in Freetown on June 6. Additional attacks by RUF ... [Read More]
U. S. Embassy, Nigeria: Bilateral Issues
August 3, 1999 U.S. House Committee on International Relations. Subcommittee on Africa. Nigeria: on the democratic path? ... January 24, 2002 Private Sector, Sound Policies key to reviving Nigerian Agriculture Remarks delivered by American Ambassador Howard F Jeter on the occasion of the launch of the "Developing Agricultural Markets in Nigeria" at the Sheraton Hotel in Abuja. ... [Read More]
Confirmation Hearing by Secretary-Designate Colin L. Powell
And in those times we worked together in a spirit of cooperation to do the nation’s will. We argued, we debated. That is the American system. That is the American democratic system. And if confirmed, I promise that I will argue with you, I will debate with you, as I did in the past, but it will always be in the best spirit of cooperation, to make sure we get the right answer for the American people and that we pursue the President’s foreign policy as he has divined it from the will of the American people. ... [Read More]
2003
1111--12/01/03 Final Communiqué: Ministerial Meeting of the Defence Planning Committee and the Nuclear Planning Group Held in Brussels ... 1111--03/18/03 Advisory Committee for Study of Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union Meeting ... 1111--07/21/03 British and American Youths to Shadow Secretaries Powell and Straw - July 24 ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Clinton Threatens to Veto Foreign Operations Bills
"The funding provided is inadequate, and many provisions of the [House Appropriations Foreign Operations] subcommittee bill, such as the international family planning provision, are objectionable," OMB Director Jacob Lew wrote in a letter to House Appropriations Committee Chairman Bill Young. "The president's senior advisers would recommend that he veto the bill if it were presented to him in its current form." ... -- Peacekeeping Operations: Slicing $49 million, or 37 percent, off the administration's request of $134 million would jeopardize peacekeeping operations in East Timor, Africa and other conflict points, OMB said. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Powell Pledges Active Foreign Policy Approach, Bipartisan Spirit
The secretary-designate singled out Biden and Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms (Republican, North Carolina) for pushing the agreement under which the United Nations has revised downward the U.S. share of the cost of regular and peacekeeping operations. And he said he supports "paying as promptly as possible the arrears that we have accumulated with the UN." ... In an extended opening statement to the committee, Powell ticked off priority foreign policy concerns for the new administration, from maintaining close ties with NATO and with Japan and other Asian allies, to expanding free trade in the Western Hemisphere, helping African nations deal with a host of problems, promoting a lasting peace in the Middle East, addressing potential threats from Korea and Iraq, and striking a balanced note in relations with China and with Russia. ... [Read More]
Department of State Washington File: Transcript: State Department Noon Briefing, April 7, 2000
Q: The United States played a very important role, President Carter did, in virtuoso diplomacy at Camp David, without knowing the outcome, helped -- more than helped, pushed Israel and Egypt into a peace treaty. The Egyptian ambassador yesterday said it was foolish to talk about how warm or cold the peace between Egypt and Israel is. There can't be real peace until there's a Palestinian state, until Israel gives up ever inch of land that Syria considers its own, et cetera. ... [Read More]
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