Anniversary of end of 1999 war over Kosovo

Today marks 12 years since the signing of the Military Technical Agreement which ended NATO's attacks against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ).

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Thursday, 09.06.2011.

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Today marks 12 years since the signing of the Military Technical Agreement which ended NATO's attacks against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (SRJ). The agreement, known also as the Kumanovo Treaty, envisaged the withdrawal of the Yugoslav Army (VJ) and Serbian police (MUP) from the Serbian province of Kosovo. Anniversary of end of 1999 war over Kosovo The provisions of the treaty were built into the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which was adopted at the UN Security Council the following day, June 10, 1999, and which has remained the international framework for the Kosovo status issue to this day. The treaty defined the deadline for the withdrawal of the forces, which was completed on June 16, 1999. The document defined the Air Safety Zone, a 25-kilometer zone extending beyond the Kosovo administrative boundary into the rest of the Serbian territory, and the Ground Safety Zone, a 5-kilometer zone extending beyond the Kosovo line into the rest of the Serbian territory. But Serbian and SRJ forces reentered the area in 2001, after ethnic Albanians in the area staged terrorist attacks. However, the status of the safety zones was never officially changed. Finish president Martti Ahtisaari delivered the draft treaty to then SRJ President Slobodan Milosevic, who also had a series of meetings with Russian diplomat Viktor Chernomyrdin. Chernomyrdin acted as the personal envoy of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, while Ahtisaari represented the EU and the UN Secretary-General. The NATO bombing campaign, which started without a UN Security Council approval, lasted 78 days. According to unofficial data, over 3,500 people were killed and another 10,000 wounded, while the damage done to the country's infrastrucure was estimated at around USD 100bn. On February 17, 2008, Kosovo's ethnic Albanians unilaterally declared independence, without UN consent. Out of 192 UN member countries, 75 have since recognized the self-proclaimed independence of the southern Serbian province, the United States included. Of the 27 EU member countries, only Spain, Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia and Greece have not recognized Kosovo. At the same time, the unilateral proclamation - which was rejected by Serbia as an illegal act of secession - has not been recognized by some of the world's biggest countries - Russia, China, India and Brazil. The signing of the agreement (Tanjug, file)

Anniversary of end of 1999 war over Kosovo

The provisions of the treaty were built into the UN Security Council Resolution 1244, which was adopted at the UN Security Council the following day, June 10, 1999, and which has remained the international framework for the Kosovo status issue to this day.

The treaty defined the deadline for the withdrawal of the forces, which was completed on June 16, 1999.

The document defined the Air Safety Zone, a 25-kilometer zone extending beyond the Kosovo administrative boundary into the rest of the Serbian territory, and the Ground Safety Zone, a 5-kilometer zone extending beyond the Kosovo line into the rest of the Serbian territory.

But Serbian and SRJ forces reentered the area in 2001, after ethnic Albanians in the area staged terrorist attacks. However, the status of the safety zones was never officially changed.

Finish president Martti Ahtisaari delivered the draft treaty to then SRJ President Slobodan Milošević, who also had a series of meetings with Russian diplomat Viktor Chernomyrdin.

Chernomyrdin acted as the personal envoy of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, while Ahtisaari represented the EU and the UN Secretary-General.

The NATO bombing campaign, which started without a UN Security Council approval, lasted 78 days. According to unofficial data, over 3,500 people were killed and another 10,000 wounded, while the damage done to the country's infrastrucure was estimated at around USD 100bn.

On February 17, 2008, Kosovo's ethnic Albanians unilaterally declared independence, without UN consent. Out of 192 UN member countries, 75 have since recognized the self-proclaimed independence of the southern Serbian province, the United States included. Of the 27 EU member countries, only Spain, Cyprus, Romania, Slovakia and Greece have not recognized Kosovo.

At the same time, the unilateral proclamation - which was rejected by Serbia as an illegal act of secession - has not been recognized by some of the world's biggest countries - Russia, China, India and Brazil.

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