Det danske Fredsakademi
Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 20. januar 2006 / Time Line January 20, 2006
Version 3.519. Januar 2006, 21. Januar 2006
01/20/2006
Carsten og
Barbera Rütting-Schweitz (Kunstnere for Fred)
har udstilling Fredag den 20. januar kl. 16-19 i Galleri Kleefeld,
Stockholmsgade 23.
01/20/2006
US Installation Realignment in Belgium Announced
NEWS RELEASES from the United States Department of Defense
The Department of Defense announces today the decision to
inactivate and return three microwave radio relay sites to Belgium.
The sites are: Houtem, Westrozebeke and Flobecq. The United States
no longer requires these sites since the service provided by the
radio relay system installed in 1996 will be replaced by
higher-capacity, lower cost commercial communications service.
01/20/2006
Sierra Leone and China in Military Assistance Deal
Sierra Leone and China have signed a military aid deal to have a
Chinese team train officers in the west African country to use
seagoing patrol boats given by Beijing, state radio reported Jan.
18.
The accord, signed Tuesday by Chinese Ambassador Cheng Wenju and
Sierra Leone's Vice Minister for Defense Joe Blell, provides for 15
Chinese troops to extend a stay for six months and train personnel
in the maritime wing of the army. The report gave no details about
the surveillance speedboats given to Sierra Leone, where the
military has been restructured while the country still emerges from
devastating civil warfare that ended in July 2002.
Most poor west African nations -- Sierra Leone is among the poorest
in the world but has diamond resources that were exploited by the
belligerents -- need such interception vessels to help to protect
fish stocks in their maritime zone from wholesale illegal
exploitation by foreign trawlers and factory ships, writes AFP.
01/20/2006
Displaced Pentagon Workers Return After Fire
By Sgt. Sara Wood, USA
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2006 - Some 3,000 workers were back in the
Pentagon today after a fire yesterday morning displaced them, a
Defense Department spokesman said.
No one was injured in the fire, which began in the kitchen of the
third-floor Executive Dining Room, spreading to the air-duct
system. All five floors in Corridors 1, 9, and 10 were evacuated,
the spokesman said.
The 63-year-old structure is undergoing a $1 billion, multiyear
renovation. The project started in the early 1990s and involves a
complete overhaul of the interior of the Defense Department
headquarters.
Pentagon Renovation and Construction
http://renovation.pentagon.mil/history-renovation.htm
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