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June 22, 2000, Thursday

President Vladimir Putin met Defence Minister Igor Sergeyev June 22, 2000, 16:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met Azerbaijani President Heidar Aliyev June 22, 2000, 12:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier near the Kremlin Wall June 22, 2000, 10:00 The Alexandrovsky Garden, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin sent a letter to the co-chairpersons of the organisation International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War June 22, 2000, 00:00

June 21, 2000, Wednesday

President Vladimir Putin held meetings with presidents of Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Armenia and Belarus June 21, 2000, 19:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

The Kremlin hosted a meeting of the Council of CIS heads of state June 21, 2000, 15:30 Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met with Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma June 21, 2000, 10:30 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin signed the decree “On Providing Support to the Special Presidential Envoy Responsible for Ensuring Human Rights and Freedoms in the Chechen Republic“ June 21, 2000, 00:00

June 20, 2000, Tuesday

The presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia met at the Kremlin June 20, 2000, 18:00 Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met President Heidar Aliyev of Azerbaijan and President Robert Kocharian of Armenia June 20, 2000, 17:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met President Eduard Shevardnadze of Georgia June 20, 2000, 16:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met Chief Justice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Korea Kim Yang-kyun June 20, 2000, 14:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

President Vladimir Putin met State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznyov June 20, 2000, 13:00 The Kremlin, Moscow

June 19, 2000, Monday

President Vladimir Putin held talks with Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev June 19, 2000, 19:00 Moscow

President Vladimir Putin spoke by telephone with South Korean President Kim Dae Jung June 19, 2000, 15:20

President Vladimir Putin issued a commendation to Alexander Udaltsov, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the Latvian Republic, for his assistance in organising the celebration of the 55th anniversary of the victory in the 1941–1945 Great Patriotic War and for his efforts to protect the rights of compatriot veterans living in Latvia June 19, 2000, 00:00

June 17, 2000, Saturday

President Vladimir Putin had negotiations with Moldovan President Petru Lucinschi in Chisinau June 17, 2000, 14:00 Chisinau

Vladimir Putin made a special statement in connection with the 75th anniversary of signing the 1925 Geneva Protocol for the Prohibition of the Use in War of Asphyxiating, Poisonous or Other Gases, and of Bacteriological Methods of Warfare and the 25th anniversary of the Convention on the Prohibition of Bacteriological Weapons and Their Destruction, in which he confirmed Russia's strong adherence to the principles and provisions contained in these documents and expressed hope for similar attitude to them on the part of other signatory countries June 17, 2000, 00:00

The Russian President sent a message to Her Majesty Elizabeth II, the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, congratulating her on the national holiday — Her Majesty's Birthday June 17, 2000, 00:00

June 16, 2000, Friday

President Vladimir Putin met President of Moldova Petru Lucinschi June 16, 2000, 23:30 Chisinau

"We remember the lessons of World War II and will never agree with the distortion of those events or attempts to justify the murderers and slander the true victors."