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Despite this, the Yugoslav army continued to function and to attack Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) insurgents inside Kosovo, mostly in the regions of Northern and Southwest Kosovo. NATO bombed strategic economic and societal targets, such as bridges, military facilities, official government facilities, and factories, using long-range cruise ...
Four days after this, a NATO meeting was convoked, during which Madeleine Albright pushed for an anti-Serbian response. [34] NATO now threatened Serbia with a military response. [34] The Kosovo War ensued, with subsequent NATO intervention, which started after the Racak massacre was uncovered during the course of the war.
It concluded that "the NATO military intervention was illegal but legitimate", [233] The second report was published by the NATO Office of Information and Press [234] which reported that, "the human rights violations committed on a large scale in Kosovo provide an incontestable ground with reference to the humanitarian aspect of NATO's ...
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NATO described the conditions in Kosovo as posing a risk to regional stability. As such, NATO and certain governments asserted they had a legitimate interest in developments in Kosovo, due to their impact on the stability of the whole region which, they claimed, is a legitimate concern of the Organisation. [4]
Kosovo, which declared independence from Serbia in 2008 after a guerrilla uprising and 1999 NATO intervention, accuses Serbia of arming and supporting the Serb fighters.
The incident at the Pristina airport was a military confrontation between the forces of Russia and NATO on 12 June 1999, following the end of the Kosovo War.Russian troops unexpectedly occupied the airport ahead of a planned NATO deployment, creating a tense stand-off.
A NATO top commander said Tuesday the alliance equipped its peacekeeping force in Kosovo with weapons of "combat power” following a recent shootout between masked Serb gunmen and Kosovo police ...