In 2000, Rau was the first German head of state since the Holocaust to address the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in German.

In April 2000, René Harris, former chairman of the Nauru Phosphate Corporation, became president as he briefly assembled support in parliament.

Malaitans took over some armouries at their home island and Honiara and helped by that, on 5 June 2000 the MEF seized the parliament by force.

It has been enshrined in the Hungarian parliament building in Budapest since 2000.

The first female to hold the office, Halonen had previously been a member of the parliament from 1979 to 2000 until her election to the presidency.

Halonen served in the parliament of Finland for six terms, from 1979 to 2000, representing the constituency of Helsinki.

She served five full terms and less than a year of her sixth term in the parliament until her inauguration as President in 2000.

In the 2000 election, however, the party received 200, 000 votes and won 14 seats in the Serbian parliament.

In 2000 she had left parliament because as she claimed, she had only a few months to live before she would die of cancer.

Often encountering resistance from the Finnish parliament, which preferred a more cautious foreign policy, as well as from within his own party, Ahtisaari did not seek re-election in 2000.

Though plans were periodically discussed for the erection of a new parliament building ( a site was even considered in the Phoenix Park ), parliament has remained in Leinster House, to which additional offices were added in the 1950s and most recently in the year 2000.

Möllemann was President of the FDP in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia ( NRW ) from 1983 to 1994 and again from 1996 to 2002, and also was the chairman of the FDP fraction in the state parliament of North Rhine-Westphalia from June 2000 to October 2002.

* Mehdi Karroubi an influential Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed, and chairman of the National Trust Party, Chairman of the parliament from 1989 to 1992 and 2000 to 2004, and a presidential candidate in the 2005 and 2009 presidential elections.

The debt in NSB Gardermobanen had become unmanageable, and in April 2000 parliament accepted that it would not be possible to make the Gardermo Line — with the current structure — the profitable venture predicted in 1992.

In 2000, Hobeika lost his parliament seat, due to active Syrian interference against him in the election.

In 2000, after anticipated elections in the city of Esch sur Alzette, Hoffmann became deputy mayor and Aloyse Bisdorff ( KPL ) succeeded him in parliament.

Enkhbayar held onto his seat in the Mongolian parliament, where he held the title of minority leader, and shepherded the party through a triumphant return to the office in 2000, in a landslide election, winning 72 out of 76 seats.

Following Budiša's defeat to Stjepan Mesić in February 2000, Budiša continued to serve as member of parliament.

In 2000, and again in 2001, the Croatian Parliament amended the Constitution changing bicameral parliament back into historic unicameral and reducing the Presidential powers.

In 2000 parliament elections PFPA took seats again and Ali Karimli was elected the leader of the opposition fraction in parliament.

On elections 2000 HSS led center coalition alongside with IDS-HNS-LS and Coalition won 25 seats in parliament with 17 seats for HSS ( 16 domestic and one minority seat ).

The buildings have long since gone from the site, but a discovery in 2000 when a quick dig of the property revealed the old parliament building footings, in addition to some pottery from that time.

In parliament Davey was given a job immediately by Paddy ( now Lord ) Ashdown and became the party's spokesman on Treasury Affairs, adding the post of Whip in 1998, and a third job to hold as the spokesman on London from 2000.

" Also during the 2000 Republican primary campaign in South Carolina, Richard Hand, a BJU professor, spread a false e-mail rumor that John McCain had fathered an illegitimate child.

General limitations about the structure and philosophy of CITES include: by design and intent it focuses on trade at the species level and does not address habitat loss, ecosystem approaches to conservation, or poverty ; it seeks to prevent unsustainable use rather than promote sustainable use ( which generally conflicts with the Convention on Biological Diversity ), although this has been changing ( see Nile Crocodile, African elephant, South African white rhino case studies in Hutton and Dickinson 2000 ).

South Korea had a census in 2000.

In 2000 Warner Music released Enya: The Video Collection on DVD in Europe, South Africa and Asia, collecting all her videos from " Orinoco Flow " up to and including " Wild Child ", except for the video from " Book of Days ", which was replaced by a live TV performance due to licensing complications relating to the video's use of footage from the film Far and Away.

Six episodes from series one were a core text in the Year 12 English Advanced syllabus for the Higher School Certificate in New South Wales ( 2000 – 2008 ) for Module C: Representation and Text: Elective 1: Telling the Truth.

Various Governors-General had previously served as governors of an Australian state or colony: Lord Hopetoun ( Victoria 1889 – 95 ); Lord Tennyson ( South Australia 1899 – 1902 ); Lord Gowrie ( South Australia 1928 – 34 ; and New South Wales 1935 – 36 ); Major General Michael Jeffery ( Western Australia 1993 – 2000 ); Quentin Bryce ( Queensland 2003 – 08 ).

* During the 1982 – 2000 South Lebanon conflict, Hezbollah waged a guerrilla campaign against Israeli forces occupying Southern Lebanon.

Between September 1993 and March 2000, he played in 162 consecutive ODIs, a South African record.

On 8 April 2000, the UCBSA ( United Cricket Board of South Africa ) denied their players were involved in match-fixing.

Between 2000 and 2006, Italy received € 27. 4 billion from the European Development Fund for investments in depressed areas of the South.

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* In 2000 ICI sold its diisocyanate, advanced materials, and specialty chemicals businesses at Teesside and worldwide ( including plants at Rosenberg, Holland, in South Africa, Malaysia, and Taiwan ), and Tioxide, its titanium dioxide subsidiary, to Huntsman Corporation for £ 1. 7 billion.

However, in October 2000, Zagros Madjd-Sadjadi, an economist with The University of the West Indies, bet $ 1000 with David South that the inflation-adjusted price of oil would decrease to an inflation-adjusted price of $ 25 by 2010 ( down from what was then $ 30 / barrel ).

* 2000 – President Kim Dae Jung of South Korea meets Kim Jong-il, leader of North Korea, for the beginning of the first ever inter-Korea summit, in the northern capital of Pyongyang.

* 1931 – Ismail Mahomed, South African lawyer and politician ( d. 2000 )

* South Korea has stated that no mines have been produced since 2000.

South of Adelaide, South Australia is home to a colony of 2000 fairy penguins.

Listed below are the 28 categories tabulated in the 2000 United States Census: Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Dominican Republic ; Central American: Costa Rican, Guatemalan, Honduran, Nicaraguan, Panamanian, Salvadoran, Other Central American ; South American: Argentinian, Bolivian, Chilean, Colombian, Ecuadorian, Paraguayan, Peruvian, Uruguayan, Venezuelan, Other South American ; Other Hispanic or Latino: Spaniard, Spanish, Spanish American, All other Hispanic or Latino.

* Lopez, Mark ( 2000 ), The Origins of Multiculturalism in Australian Politics 1945 – 1975, Melbourne University Press, Carlton South, Victoria.

Polished stone mirrors from Central and South America date from around 2000 BC onwards.

Communications were opened with South Korea in 2000.