l Kofi Annan, We, the People: The role of the United Nations in the 21st Century, Report of the UN Secretary General to the Millennium Assembly, United Nations, March 2000, p. 46. Available at <www.un.org/millennium/sg/report/ch3.pdf>. See also the Report of the UN Secretary-General to the UN Security Council on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts, UN Doc. S/1999/957, 8 September 1999.

2 SIPRI Yearbook 2000: Armaments, Disarmament and International Security, Highlights, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute/Oxford University Press, 2000. Also available at <editors.sipri.se/pubs/yboo/proo.html>.

3 Idem.

4 Review of UN Policy Approaches in Taliban-controlled areas of Afghanistan: A DHA Report, UN Department of Humanitarian Affairs, New York, June 1997. Available on <wwww.reliefweb.int>.

5 The ICRC has created a website to help reestablish contact between family members in the former Yugoslavia. To assist persons wising to locate their relatives, computers have been installed in ICRC offices in Albania, Macedonia, the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. See <www.familylinks.icrc.org>. Moreover, a team assembled by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) provided an Internet service to Kosovo barely 100 days after the arrival of UN peacekeepers, The project offered free, reliable and inexpensive communications to local organizations and was instrumental in efforts to reunite families. See the Kosovo Internet Project's Web site <www.ipko.org>.

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