These are some of the notable events relating to politics in 2000.
Events
January
January 3–10 – Israel and Syria hold inconclusive peace talks. January 5–8 – The 2000 al-Qaeda Summit of several high-level al-Qaeda members (including two 9/11 American Airlines hijackers) is held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. January 11 – The armed wing of the Islamic Salvation Front concludes its negotiations with the government for an amnesty and disbands in Algeria (see Algerian Civil War#GIA destroyed, GSPC discontinues). January 14 – A United Nations tribunal sentences 5 Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of over 100 Bosnian Muslims in a Bosnian village. January 24 – God's Army, a Karen militia group led by twins Johnny and Luther Htoo, takes 700 hostages at a Thai hospital near the Burmese border.
February
February 6 – Tarja Halonen is elected the first female president of Finland. February 7 – Stipe Mesić is elected president of Croatia.
March
March 1
The Constitution of Finland is rewritten. Jorge Batlle, a son, grandnephew and great-grandson of former presidents, is sworn in as President of Uruguay. March 21 Pope John Paul II begins the first official visit by a Roman Catholic pontiff to Israel. The U.S. Supreme Court rules the FDA lacks authority to regulate tobacco as an addictive drug, throwing out the Clinton Administration's main anti-smoking initiative. March 26 – Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
April
April 16 – An American anti-globalization protest is held in Washington, D.C. April 17 – Tuanku Syed Sirajuddin becomes Raja of Perlis.
May
May – Sierra Leone Civil War: The British Armed Forces launch Operation Palliser to support the Sierra Leone government to counter the Revolutionary United Front. May 11 – Effective date of Canada's first modern-day treaty – The Nisga'a Final Agreement. May 16 – The Grand National Assembly of Turkey elects Ahmet Necdet Sezer as the tenth President of Turkey. May 20 – Taiwanese (ROC) president Chen Shui-bian makes the Four Noes and One Without pledge to Taiwan. May 25 – Israel withdraws IDF forces from southern Lebanon after 22 years.
June
June 13 – South Korean President Kim Dae-jung visits North Korea to participate in the first North-South presidential summit. June 21 – Section 28, a law preventing the promotion of homosexuality, is repealed by the Scottish Parliament.
July
July 2 – Vicente Fox is elected President of Mexico, as candidate of the rightist PAN (National Action Party), ending 71 years of PRI (Institutional Revolutionary Party) rule. July 10 – Bashar al-Assad is confirmed as Syria's leader in a national referendum following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad. July 13–25 – Israel's prime minister Ehud Barak and PLO leader Yasser Arafat meet at Camp David, but fail to reach an agreement. July 18 – Alex Salmond resigns as the leader of the Scottish National Party. July 21–23 – G-8 Nations hold their 26th Annual Summit; issues include AIDS, the 'digital divide', and halving world poverty by 2015. July 30 – Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez is reelected with 59% of the vote. July 31 – August 3 – The Republican National Convention in Philadelphia nominates Governor of Texas George W. Bush for President of the United States and Dick Cheney for Vice President.
August
August 14–17 – The Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles nominates U.S. Vice President Al Gore for President and Senator Joe Lieberman for Vice President.
September
September 5 – Tuvalu joins the United Nations. September 8 Albania officially joins the World Trade Organization. The United Nations Millennium Declaration is made in New York September 16 – Peru's president Alberto Fujimori calls for new elections in which he will not run. September 26 – Anti-globalization protests in Prague (some 15,000 protesters) turn violent during the IMF and World Bank summits. September 28 – Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount, protected by a several-hundred-strong Israeli police force. Palestinian riots erupt, leading to a full-fledged armed uprising (called the Al-Aqsa Intifada by sympathizers and the Oslo War by opponents).