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This article covers breaking news and events in April 2000.

Daily events

Saturday April 1, 2000

• Dakar / Senegal : After his victory in the presidential election on March 19 occurs Abdoulaye Wade of the Democratic Party from his position as President and thus ending the 40-year rule of the Socialist Party of the country.

Wednesday April 5, 2000

• Brussels / Belgium : The European Union (EU) starts negotiations with Macedonia on a Stabilization and Association Agreement , which is considered a preliminary stage for the Balkan state's accession negotiations with the EU. Macedonia is the first country to take this path towards aspiring EU membership.

Thursday April 6, 2000

Seat of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

• Strasbourg / France : The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe deprives the Russian delegates the right to vote as a sign against the destruction of the Chechen city of Grozny , against attacks on the civilian population and against further human rights violations in the Second Chechen War .

Friday April 7, 2000

• Vienna / Austria : The Austrian Harald Krassnitzer is honored as the best actor in a series at the 11th Romy TV Prize. With this, the audience honors his achievements in the Tatort series .

Saturday April 8, 2000

Baby hatch

• Athens / Greece : As with the general election in 1996 the voters confirm the one-party government of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement under Prime Minister Konstantinos Simitis .
• Hamburg / Germany : The first German baby hatch is installed in Altona .
• Yaren / Nauru : The parliamentary elections decide on the 18 members of the Nauru parliament . There are no political parties in the country.

Sunday April 9, 2000

Eduard Shevardnadze

• Tbilisi / Georgia : Eduard Shevardnadze from the Alliance for a New Georgia is re-elected as President with 80.4% of the votes cast .

Monday April 10, 2000

• Essen / Germany : The CDU board member Angela Merkel is elected as the new party leader with 897 of 935 valid votes at the federal party conference of the CDU.

Friday April 14, 2000

• Germany , Zimbabwe : The investment protection treaty between the two countries comes into force.

Saturday April 15, 2000

New Museum Nuremberg

• Bern / Switzerland : The press spokesman for the Social Democratic Party confirms information that the party president Ursula Koch is resigning from office for health reasons and is also leaving the National Council .
• Nuremberg / Germany : The New Museum for Free and Applied Art is opened.

Thursday April 20, 2000

• La Paz / Bolivia : The Revolutionary Nationalist Movement party calls on President Hugo Banzer Suárez of the Democratic Nationalist Action to resign. Banzer's deputy Jorge Quiroga Ramírez should then take over the official business until a government legitimized by parliamentary elections is sworn in .

Friday April 21, 2000

Saturday April 22, 2000

• Kigali / Rwanda : Paul Kagame becomes President.
• Vanni / Sri Lanka : The country's armed forces suffer one of their worst defeats in the civil war when fighters from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam conquer the important military base on the Elephant Pass .

Sunday April 23, 2000

• Pulau Sipadan / Malaysia : Members of the radical- Islamist group Abu Sayyaf kidnap 21 tourists and hotel staff from the island of Sipadan on the south Philippine island of Jolo .

Friday April 28, 2000

• Vienna / Austria : The delegates of the party congress of the SPÖ elect Alfred Gusenbauer as the new chairman of their party, which is part of the parliamentary opposition in the National Council for the first time in around 30 years since the failure of the coalition negotiations with the ÖVP .

Sunday April 30, 2000

• Exeter / United Kingdom : According to the United Kingdom's National Meteorological Service , April 2000 is the wettest April since records began in 1766.

See also

• Nekrolog April 2000 for deaths that month
• List of annually recurring days of remembrance and action in April
• Category for commemorative days, public holidays or days of action in April

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Abdoulaye Wade's biography. In: presidence.sn, Presidency of the Republic of Senegal. Retrieved December 24, 2017 . 
2. ^ History. In: uni-koblenz.de . Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
3. ^ Information from the German delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe about the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe from April 3 to 7, 2000 in Strasbourg. In: bundestag.de . December 20, 2000, accessed August 13, 2019 . 
4. ^ Romy Gala, Austria. In: imdb.com . Retrieved September 22, 2017 (English). 
5. ↑ Election Results. In: hellenicparliament.gr . Accessed September 3, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Baby flaps. In: sternipark.de, Sternipark GmbH. Retrieved September 18, 2016 . 
7. ^ Parliament, elections held in 2000. In: ipu.org . Accessed October 4, 2018 . 
8. ^ Shevardnadze wins presidential elections in Georgia. In: wsws.org . April 18, 2000, accessed May 10, 2017 . 
9. ↑ 13th Party Congress in Essen 2000. In: cdu.de . Retrieved September 18, 2016 . 
10. ↑ Investment protection in bilateral trade agreements between the Federal Republic of Germany and developing and emerging countries. In: bmwi.de . March 27, 2015, accessed November 20, 2018 . 
11. ^ SP President Ursula Koch resigned. In: swissinfo.ch . April 15, 2000, accessed on April 26, 2019 : "On June 28, 1997 Koch [...] was elected" 
12. ^ Inauguration of the New Museum in Nuremberg. In: baunetz.de . April 14, 2000, accessed November 23, 2018 . 
13. ^ Resignation of President Banzer. In: kas.de . Retrieved November 23, 2018 . 
14. ↑ How the LTTE Captured Elephant Pass Army Camp 15 Years ago Through an 'Encircle and Enfeeble' war Strategy. In: dbsjeyaraj.com. April 27, 2015, accessed November 24, 2018 . 
15. ^ Goettingen Wallert family is kidnapped. In: goettinger-tageblatt.de . February 12, 2014, accessed August 6, 2019 . 
16. ^ Alfred Gusenbauer, from working-class child to the top of the SPÖ. In: wienerzeitung.at . March 26, 2005, accessed April 27, 2019 . 
17. ↑ April 2000 - Record rainfall. In: metoffice.gov.uk . October 26, 2012, accessed May 10, 2017 .