The eradication of extreme poverty and hunger was the first Millennium Development Goal, as set by 179 United Nations Member States in 2000.

The International Charlemagne Prize of Aachen was awarded in the year 2000 to the President of the United States, Bill Clinton, for his special personal contribution to cooperation with the states of Europe, for the preservation of peace, freedom, democracy and human rights in Europe, and for his support of the enlargement of the European Union.

* 2000 – The Big Number Change takes place in the United Kingdom.

In 2000 the United States Department of Justice noted, " In an Alford plea the defendant agrees to plead guilty because he or she

* 2000 – United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping " an oppressive thumb " on its competitors.

Some time late in 2000, Haznawi traveled to the United Arab Emirates, where he purchased traveler's cheques presumed to have been paid for by Mustafa al-Hawsawi.

In 2000 KPMG reported in its survey of offshore jurisdictions for the United Kingdom government that over 41 % of the world's offshore companies were formed in the British Virgin Islands.

The Governments of Botswana and the United States entered into an agreement in July 2000 to establish an International Law Enforcement Academy ( ILEA ) in Gaborone.

Magnetic ( compass ) north and geographic ( true ) north are only exactly the same for a small number of places – for example, as of 2000 in the United States only those places on a line running from Wisconsin to the Gulf of Mexico .< ref > But the public may not be as informed, and think there is something mysterious about a compass " changing " across an area as large as the Triangle, which it naturally will.

In New Zealand, the New Zealand Blood Service ( NZBS ) in 2000 introduced measures to preclude permanently donors who had resided in the United Kingdom ( including the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands ) for a total of six months or more between January 1980 and December 1996.

However, as Putnam notes in Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community ( 2000 ), social capital has been falling in the United States.

Tramlink ( originally and sometimes still called Croydon Tramlink ) is a tramway system in south London in the United Kingdom which began operation in May 2000.

The 1888 novel Looking Backward by Edward Bellamy depicts a fictional planned economy in a United States c. the year 2000 which has become a socialist utopia.

To assist the new government, since February 2000 the United Nations has had the United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo ( now called MONUSCO ), which currently has a strength of over 16, 000 peacekeepers in the country.

James became prime minister, serving until the February 2000 elections, when the Dominica United Workers Party ( DUWP ) was defeated by the Dominica Labour Party ( DLP ), led by Rosie Douglas.

In December 2000, US President Bill Clinton awarded Engelbart the National Medal of Technology, the United States ' highest technology award.

* 2000 – The Supreme Court of the United States stays the sixth Florida recount.

Its capabilities and political implications were investigated by a committee of the European Parliament during 2000 and 2001 with a report published in 2001, and by author James Bamford in his books on the National Security Agency of the United States.

In 2000 the United States Congress designated the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor to recognize the national significance of the canal system as the most successful and influential human-built waterway and one of the most important works of civil engineering and construction in North America.

Additionally, we assess against Crain a damage award of $ 2000 in favor of the appellee United States.

Defending holders Manchester United did not enter the 1999 – 2000 FA Cup, as they were already in the inaugural Club World Championship, with the club stating that entering both tournaments would overload their fixture schedule and make it more difficult to defend their Champions League and Premiership titles.

By 2000, only Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates ( UAE ) recognized the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan.

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.

Israel withdrew in 2000 in accordance with 1978's United Nations Security Council Resolution 425.

In January 2000, Jamaica began serving a 2-year term on the United Nations Security Council.

* 2000 – The United Nations defines the Blue Line as the border between Israel and Lebanon.

* 2000 – A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village.

combined fixed-line and mobile-cellular teledensity only about 7 per 100 persons ; The United Nations estimates placed telephone subscribers at. 2 per hundred in 2000, rising to 2. 5 per hundred in 2006.

* 2000 – Serbia joins the United Nations.

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.

The year 2000 United Nations Millennium Declaration failed to deal with these new demands, mentioning only " the right to self-determination of peoples which remain under colonial domination and foreign occupation.

Kly and D. Kly, In pursuit of The Right to Self-determination, Collected Papers & Proceedings of the First International Conference on the Right to Self-Determination & the United Nations, Geneva 2000, G E N E V A 2000, preface by Richard Falk, Clarity Press, 2001.

"(, p. 19 ) These are eight international development goals that 192 United Nations member states and at least 23 international organizations have agreed ( in 2000 ) to achieve by the year 2015.

* United Nations Millennium Declaration, 2000

The Blessing ceremonies attracted attention in the press and in the public imagination, often being labeled " mass weddings ", the one of such blessing ceremonies was held at Headquarters of the United Nations in 2000.

Since October 5, 2000, foreign embassies, including that of the U. S., have reopened, and the country has regained its seat in such international organizations as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ) and the United Nations and is actively participating in International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and World Bank projects.

According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, total world capture fisheries production in 2000 was 86 million tons ( FAO 2002 ).

On 7 September 2000 the OPCW and the United Nations signed a cooperation agreement outlining how they were to coordinate their activities.

The day was created in 2000 by a special United Nations General Assembly Resolution.

* Australian Nations Cup Championship A series for GT type cars which ran from 2000 to 2004.

The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization estimates the following production of unprocessed tobacco by country / region in 2000.

On September 5, 2000, Tuvalu became the 189th member of the United Nations.