- March 20, 2005
March 20 ,2005 * US Secretary of State
Condoleezza Rice arrives inBeijing for the last leg of her six-country Asian trip. Rice met with PresidentHu Jintao and PremierWen Jiabao ; talks aboutNorth Korea nuclear missile s program andTaiwan are on the top of the agenda. [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/20/rice.china/ (CNN)] [http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-03/21/content_426672.htm (China Daily)]
*Protest ers inKyrgyzstan march againstelectoral fraud in the 2005 Kyrgyz parliamentary elections, and appear to have taken control of the southern town of Jalal-Abad after mounting large-scale demonstrations to demandAskar Akayev to step down asPresident of Kyrgyzstan . [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7953528 (Reuters)] , [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4365945.stm (BBC)] , [http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/03/20/kyrgyzstan.riots.ap/ (CNN)]
*Flood s inAfghanistan kill more than 200. Coalitionhelicopter s are dispatched to save people [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000080&sid=aB7kOq6GW2Go&refer=asia (Bloomberg)] [http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en77245&F_catID=&f_type=source (Hi Pakistan)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4365623.stm (BBC)]
* InAzerbaijan , presidentIlham Aliyev announcespardon s for 114 people, including 7 opposition leaders and total of 50political prisoner s [http://www.azertag.com/en/index.shtml?language=english&catid=&news_year=&news_month=&news_day=&newsid=101116&themes_viewing=&themes_page=&themeid=&news_page= (Azertag)] [http://www.cascfen.org/contents.php?cid=159 (CASCFEN)] [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4366911.stm (BBC)]
*Serbia n government states that Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurević will surrender towar crime s tribunal atthe Hague . He is charged withgenocide connected toSrebrenica massacre in1995 [http://www.fena.ba/uk/vijest.html?fena_id=FSA239522&rubrika=ES (FENA)] [http://www.b92.net/english/news/index.php?&nav_category=2&nav_id=31613&order=priority&style=headlines (B92)] [http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=worldNews&storyID=7952391 (Reuters)]
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