10th anniversary of the Kumanovo agreement
June 9th 2009 marks the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Kumanovo agreement between Belgrade and NATO, which ended the Alliance's 78-days long bombings of Serbian civilian and military infrastructure.
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Tuesday, June 09, 2009
Under the agreement, Serbian police and Yugoslav military had to withdraw from Kosovo within several days and be replaced by 50,000 NATO troops.
Ten years later, many of the provisions of the agreement have not been implemented by NATO, primarily the limited return of Serbian forces to Kosovo.
The agreement was signed by General Svetozar Marjanovic and Police General Obrad Stevanovic on the then Yugoslavia's behalf, and by British General Mike Jackson for NATO and KFOR.
The agreement became part of UN Security Council 1244, which remains in force to this day.
The Kosovo Albanians declared unilateral independence on February 17, 2008, on the basis of Martti Ahtisaari's plan, who himself delivered the Kumanovo Agreement to then Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and became a mastermind of the ethnic Albanian secession.
