2 minutes ago22 years from halting NATO bombings against Serbian forces
Periskopi(5 years ago)
(5 years ago)NATO Secretary General Javier Sollana, on June 10, 1999, had issued the order to stop the bombing, while the UN Security Council, on the same day, had adopted Resolution 1244, where 37,200 KFOR soldiers from 36 states were sent. On June 12, 1999, troops [...] have landed in Kosovo.
On June 12th 1999, the first NATO infantry troops have landed in Kosovo, while the evacuation of Serb forces has begun.
The mission was divided into five areas of responsibility belonging to US, English, French, German and Italian KFOR.
With NATO's entry into Kosovo, the deployment of the UN organisation's provisional mission, which would manage the country for a certain period of time, has begun.
At the same time, the Kosovo Liberation Army has also been disbanded to become the Kosovo Protection Corps.
