International Events in September 2000
Sep. 1:
The leaders of the 12 South American nations sign the `Brazil Communique' calling for the full physical integration of the continent by 2010 into a ``community of nations.''
Sep. 2:
Myanmar military authorities raid the headquarters of the National League for Democracy of Ms. Aung San Suu Kyi.
Intense fighting between the Government troops and the LTTE leaves 300 combatants from both sides dead.
Sep. 3:
Twelve army officers implicated in the assassination of the former Bangladesh President, Ziaur Rahman were hanged under a ``pre- designated plan'' a parliamentary probe (which took 19 years to complete its investigation) has revealed.
Sep. 6:
``Change cannot be held back by frontiers,'' says the U.N. Secretary-General, Mr. Kofi Annan in his opening address at the United Nations Millennium Summit.
Sep. 8:
About 100 people die in Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Ugyur region to the West of China in a ``catastrophic explosion,'' when a vehicle carrying explosives planned to be destroyed suddenly blows up.
Japan arrests a senior naval officer, Mr. Shigehiro Hagisaki (38) in the nation's biggest spy scandal in 20 years, on suspicion of passing military secrets to a Russian embassy employee.
Sep. 10:
Sri Lankan security forces kill 75 LTTE militants at Colombuthurai and recaptures some area.
Sep. 11:
The European Union lifts sanctions on Austria.
Sep. 13:
Ms. Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the Democratic Party's official nomination to be a Senator from New York, becoming the first U.S. First Lady to be a candidate in a national election.
Sep. 14:
The Indonesian President, Mr. Abdurrahman Wahid orders the arrest of Mr. Hutomo Mandala Putra (aka Tommy) son of the former dictator, Gen. Suharto in connection with a bomb attack.
Sep. 15:
Ignacio Gracia Arregui (45) head of the Basque separatist organisation ETA and his wife held at Bidart, near Bayonne in the French Basque country.
Sep. 16:
The Philippines launches a massive military operation against the Abu Sayyaf group on the southern island of Jolo.
Mr. M.H.M. Ashraff, a senior Sri Lankan Minister and 14 others die after the Mi-17 helicopter carrying them crashes in the mountain jungles in the east of the country.
Sep. 17:
The Ukrainian Deputy Interior Minister, Mr. Leonid Boroditch dies in Kiev when a plane he was flying crashes as he carries out a stunt at a local air show.
Sep. 18:
South Korea begins work on a railway link with North Korea at the demilitarised zone in Paju.
Sep. 19:
Fifteen persons die and 100 sustain injuries in a bomb explosion in a crowded fruit and vegetable market in Islamabad.
Sep. 20:
The headquarters of MI6, the British foreign intelligence agency hit by a missile.
The U.S. Senate votes decisively in favour of the China Trade Bill granting permanent normal trade relations.
Sep. 25:
The Defence Ministers and South and North Korea, Mr. Cho Sung-Tae and Mr. Kim Il Chul meeting for the first time ever, pledge to work toward reconciliation.
French voters approve a referendum on shortening the presidential term to five years.
Sep. 26:
The British authorities file criminal charges against the best selling novelist, Mr. Jeffrey Archer for allegedly asking a friend to lie for him in a libel trial 13 years ago.
The Yugoslav President, Mr. Slobodan Milosevic announces a run- off election against the Opposition leader, Mr. Vojislav Kostounica, who insists he has won the election outright.
At least 59 people die as a Greek ferry Express Samina sinks after hitting a patch of rocks in the Aegean Sea.
Sep. 27:
The Indonesian Supreme Court sentences Mr. Tommy Suharto, youngest son of the former President, Gen.Suharto to an 18 month jail term on corruption charges.
As many as 161 miners die after a gas explosion in a coalmine in southern China.
Sep. 28:
Eighty LTTE rebels and 33 Sri Lankan troops die as fresh battles break out over the control of a number of areas in the northern Jaffna peninsula.
A Jakarta court in a surprise verdict dismisses the corruption case against the former President, Gen.Suharto and frees him from his city arrest.
Denmark rejects the euro, voting not to join 11 other Western European states in the common currency.