Portal:Current events/2005 March 20

March 20, 2005 (Sunday)

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice arrives in Beijing for the last leg of her six-country Asian trip. Rice met with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao; talks about North Korea nuclear missiles program and Taiwan are on the top of the agenda. (CNN) (China Daily)
Protesters in Kyrgyzstan march against electoral 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 demand Askar Akayev to step down as President of Kyrgyzstan. (Reuters)^{[permanent dead link‍]}, (BBC), (CNN)
Floods in Afghanistan kill more than 200. Coalition helicopters are dispatched to save people (Bloomberg) (Hi Pakistan)^{[permanent dead link‍]} (BBC)
In Azerbaijan, president Ilham Aliyev announces pardons for 114 people, including 7 opposition leaders and total of 50 political prisoners (Azertag) (CASCFEN) (BBC)
Serbian government states that Bosnian Serb general Vinko Pandurević will surrender to war crimes tribunal at the Hague. He is charged with genocide connected to Srebrenica massacre in 1995 (FENA) (B92) (Reuters)^{[permanent dead link‍]}