11 May 2000 Military News

Boeing to Produce Remanufactured Harriers for Spanish Navy Boeing 11 May 2000 -- The Boeing Company and the U.S. Naval Air Systems Command have signed a contract that begins the remanufacturing program for Spain's EAV-8B day-attack Harriers.
ATK Solid Rocket Boosters Successfully Launch U.S. Air Force Satellite Aboard Titan IV B Rocket ATK 11 May 2000 -- ATK (Alliant Techsystems, NYSE: ATK) said a Lockheed Martin Titan IV B rocket powered by two Solid Rocket Motor Upgrade (SRMU) boosters designed and manufactured by Alliant Aerospace Propulsion Company successfully launched a Defense Support Program (DSP) satellite from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. on May 8.
Air Force successfully launches Global Positioning System satellite built by Lockheed Martin Lockheed Martin 11 May 2000 -- A Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite built by Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Sunnyvale, CA, was successfully launched yesterday evening from Cape Canaveral Air Station, FL. This was the third successful launch of the new-generation replenishment spacecraft, designated GPS IIR.

DAILY PRESS BRIEFING OF OFFICE OF SPOKESMAN FOR SECRETARY-GENERAL United Nations 11 May 2000
PRESS BRIEFING BY SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR CHILDREN AND ARMED CONFLICT United Nations 11 May 2000

COUNCIL CALLS ON GEORGIA PARTIES TO FINALIZE AGREEMENTS ON CONFLICT PREVENTION, REFUGEE RETURNS Press Release SC/6855 - 11 May 2000 -- The Security Council this morning called upon the parties in the conflict in Georgia to finalize their work on and to sign a draft agreement on peace and guarantees for the prevention of armed confrontation.

Text: U.S. Deputy Rep. to U.N. Issues Statement on Sierra Leone 11 May 2000 -- The United States government and its people view the recent tragic events in Sierra Leone with "shock and dismay," U.S. Deputy Representative to the United Nations James Cunningham told the Security Council on May 11.
Transcript: Ambassador Richard Holbrooke Surveys U.N. Peacekeeping 11 May 2000 -- "Peacekeepers cannot succeed when there is no peace to keep," the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, warned May 11, while adding that "Sierra Leone, like Bosnia before it, is an example of what happens when the parties to a peace settlement violate that settlement, wreaking havoc on everyone - peacekeepers and civilians alike."
CLINTON - SIERRA LEONE Voice of America 11 May 2000 -- The Clinton administration is warning rebels in Sierra Leone that the world community is serious about reinforcing the U-N peacekeeping presence and stabilizing the situation in the West African country.
SIERRA LEONE / ESCAPE Voice of America 11 May 2000 -- In Sierra Leone, three British military observers and one from New Zealand have escaped from a compound surrounded by the country's Revolutionary United Front rebels.

LANKAN WAR Voice of America 11 May 2000 -- More than 100 Sri Lankan soldiers and Tamil Tiger rebels have been killed in fierce fighting now under way in northern Sri Lanka as the battle for control of Jaffna continues.
ETHIOPIA / DROUGHT Voice of America 11 May 2000 -- More than 16-million people in the Horn of Africa are facing hunger because of drought -- most of them in Ethiopia.
THE RUSSIAN CONTRIBUTION TO THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE AND PACE RECOMMENDATION 1456 (2000) ON THE SITUATION IN THE CHECHEN REPUBLIC MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, IGOR IVANOV (Strasbourg, May 11, 2000) The armed aggression of the forces of international terrorism against Dagestan, which neighbors on Chechnya, the explosions of residential houses in Moscow and some other cities in the country have overstretched patience.
ACEH-CEASEFIRE Voice of America 11 May 2000 -- Rebels in Indonesia's restive Aceh province are due to sign a cease-fire agreement with the government Friday.

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