According to Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on food, there was a rush by institutions to enter the food market following George W Bush's Commodities Futures Modernization Act of 2000.

Although Israel withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and their complete withdrawal was verified by the United Nations, Lebanon now considers the Shebaa farms — a 26-km² ( 10-mi² ) piece of land captured by Israel from Syria in the 1967 war and considered by the UN to be disputed territory between Syria and Israel — to be Lebanese territory.

* 2000 – Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 425 22 years after its issuance, which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon.

On May 25, 2000, Israel completed its withdrawal from the south of Lebanon in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 425.

The UN estimated in 2006 that there were only. 3 internet users per 100 Nigeriens, but this had risen from less than. 1 per 100 in 2000.

In January 2000, Ekéus was nominated to head the UN Monitoring, Verification and Inspections Commission ( UNMOVIC ), charged with investigating allegations that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.

Most recently, in 2000, Senegal sent a battalion to the Democratic Republic of Congo to participate in MONUC, the United Nations peacekeeping mission, and agreed to deploy a United States-trained battalion to Sierra Leone to participate in UNAMSIL, another UN peacekeeping mission.

Eventually, after the overthrow of Slobodan Milošević from power as president of the federation in 2000, the country rescinded those aspirations and accepted the opinion of Badinter Arbitration Committee about shared succession, and reapplied for and gained UN membership on November 2, 2000.

The first of the 6, 000-member force began arriving in December, and the UN Security Council voted in February 2000 to increase the force to 11, 000, and later to 13, 000.

From 1998 to 2000, Slovenia occupied a nonpermanent seat on the UN Security Council and in that capacity distinguished itself with a constructive, creative, and consensus-oriented activism.

Switzerland in October 2000 implemented an ordinance to enforce UN sanctions against the Taliban ( UNSCR 1267 ), which it subsequently amended in April 2001 in accord with tighter UN regulations ( UNSCR 1333 ).

The peace process collapsed following the outbreak of the second Palestinian ( Intifada ) uprising in September 2000, though Syria continues to call for a comprehensive settlement based on UN Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and the land-for-peace formula adopted at the 1991 Madrid conference.

In 2000, the UN Security Council imposed an arms embargo against military support to the Taliban, with UN officials explicitly singling out Pakistan.

Two subsequent attempts to resolve the problem by means of a negotiated political settlement by James Baker, acting as Personal Envoy of the UN Secretary General, the first in 2000 and the second in 2003, failed to gain acceptance, the first being rejected by the Polisario and second by Morocco.

It was declared ready for operations on January 1, 2000, and deployed to the Horn of Africa in November 2000 to form the core of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea ( UNMEE ) under the command of Royal Netherlands Marine Corps Major General Patrick Cammaert.

Two optional protocols were adopted by the UN General Assembly on 25 May 2000.

The UN Economic Commission for Africa ( UNECA ) developed a " Compact for Africa ’ s Recovery " based on both these plans and on resolutions on Africa adopted by the United Nations Millennium Summit in September 2000, and submitted a merged document to the Conference of African Ministers of Finance and Ministers of Development and Planning in Algiers, May 2001.

UN estimates 2000 – 2006.

" Arab journalist Huda Al-Hussein wrote in a London Arab newspaper on October 27, 2000: " While UN organizations save child-soldiers, especially in Africa, from the control of militia leaders who hurl them into the furnace of gang-fighting, some Palestinian leaders … consciously issue orders with the purpose of ending their childhood, even if it means their last breath.

the non papers produced in 1998 and 1999 ensured that when the UN Commission met in 2000 it could agree to host another Summit in 2002.

The report also investigated the failures of the UN Peacekeeping Force, and the involvement of mercenaries / private military contractors in providing vital support to UN operations and British military Special Operations in Sierra Leone in 1999 – 2000.

The LTTE has been accused of hijacking several vessels and ships in waters outside Sri Lanka, including Ocean Trader ( in October 1994 ), Irish Mona ( in August 1995 ), Princess Wave ( in August 1996 ), Athena ( in May 1997 ), Misen ( in July 1997 ), Morong Bong ( in July 1997 ), MV Cordiality ( in September 1997 ), Princess Kash ( in August 1998 ), Newko ( in July 1999 ), Uhana ( in June 2000 ), Fuyuan Ya 225 ( Chinese trawler, in March 2003 ), MV Farah III ( in December 2006 ) and City of Liverpool ( in January 2007 ).

Professor Ted Postol has accused the MIT administration since 2000 of attempting to whitewash potential research misconduct at the Lincoln Lab facility involving a ballistic missile defense test, though a final investigation into the matter has not been completed.

BBC was accused of pro-Palestinian bias over a documentary about Israel developing a nuclear weapon during the second Palestinian intifada in 2000.

The presidential election in 2000 was accused of being the result of vote fraud.

* 2000 overthrow of Slobodan Milošević in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia-after Slobodan Milošević was accused by opposition figures of winning the 2000 election through electoral fraud, mass protests led by the opposition movement Otpor pressure Slobodan Milošević to resign.

After the publication of the Méry video-tape by Le Monde on 22 September 2000, in which Jean-Claude Méry, in charge of the RPR's financing, directly accused Chirac of organizing the network, and of having been physically present on 5 October 1986, when Méry gave in cash 5 millions Francs, which came from companies who had benefited from state deals, to Michel Roussin, personal secretary ( directeur de cabinet ) of Chirac, Chirac refused to follow up his summons by judge Eric Halphen, and the highest echelons of the French justice declared that he could not been inculpated while in functions.

In September 2000, opposition parties accused Milošević of electoral fraud.

In December 2005, Kleanthis Grivas published an article in To Proto Thema, a Greek Sunday newspaper, in which he accused " Sheepskin ", the Greek branch of Gladio, NATO's stay-behind paramilitary organization during the Cold War, of the assassination of CIA station chief Richard Welch in Athens in 1975, as well as of the assassination of Stephen Saunders in 2000.

In 2000 Aristide published the book Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization that accused the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund of working on behalf of the world's wealthiest nations rather than in the interest of genuine international development.

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In 2000, St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig, while serving as an Arnold, MO patrol officer, was accused of sexually harassing a 17 year old girl during a traffic stop.

In August 2000 Cowpland was accused of insider trading and left.

The EZLN and many Chiapas residents accused the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party ( PRI ) of complicity, and following the change of government in 2000, survivors alleged that the investigation was being stalled, with authorities refusing to question or arrest suspects in the attacks.

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations is the 2000 sequel to the documentary film Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, about the trial and conviction of three teenagers known as the West Memphis Three accused of murdering three young boys in a Satanic ritual abuse.

On 16 October 2000 it was reported that Robinson had " accused Peter Mandelson of lying to the Commons about the home loan affair that cost both of them their Government jobs.

In July 2000, it was announced that he was to be accused of embezzling US $ 571 million of government donations to one of a number of foundations under his control and then using the money to finance family investments.

In 2000 the U. S. began funding, continued under the U. S. Bush administration, of Plan Colombia, intending to eradicate drug crops and to act against drug lords accused of engaging in narcoterrorism, including among them the leaders of the marxist FARC and the AUC paramilitary forces.

Subsequently the CBI appealed the verdict in Delhi High court in 2000, after which the High Court issued a bailable warrant against the accused.

In 1996, 1997 and 2000, Luster was accused of giving three women GHB, a date rape drug, and raping them while they were unconscious.

Rafter publicly accused Philippoussis of jerking the team around after he withdrew from a Davis Cup tie in late 2000.

Opponents accused him of involvement in the killing in 2000 of journalist Georgiy Gongadze ( see also SBU, " Cassette Scandal ", Mykola Mel ' nychenko ), which he has always denied.

In 2000, she was again accused of anti-semitism after choosing to interview historian and Holocaust denier David Irving, for Australian Style magazine during his failed libel trial in London.

In 2004, Toledo was accused of falsifying some of the signatures that had been collected on his behalf in the 2000 election.