The positive is that there's less disorder and inhumanity which would have gone on in Bosnia or Kosovo. |
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The Kosovo War was a watershed event that profoundly changed the political situation. |
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Five percent of the people speak Albanian, most of these concentrated in the southern province of Kosovo. |
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Private military personnel marched with the US Army first into Somalia, then Bosnia, and Kosovo. |
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The military has been using unmanned, ground-controlled reconnaissance aircraft on missions over Iraq and Kosovo. |
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He faces a total of 66 counts on three indictments for genocide and war crimes in Bosnia, and crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo. |
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He may be suffering from reactive depression resulting from traumatic events whilst living in Kosovo. |
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The tankers are for refuelling airplanes, which saw extensive action in the Afghanistan and Kosovo campaigns. |
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After joining up in 1998, Cpl Fox served in Germany and in Kosovo as an intelligence and security clerk with the Queen's Royal Hussars. |
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Similarly, when NATO forces intervened in Kosovo, many in the international community supported the action. |
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There are shrines in Kosovo built in the thirteenth century central to Serbian identity. |
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This is due to their traditional links with the Kosovo Albanian community and the fact that they speak Albanian as their mother tongue. |
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The commission says Kosovo should be made independent by next year and embark on a four-stage process to EU accession. |
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He has demonstrated by his hawkishness on Kosovo and Afghanistan that he is willing to use force to defend American ideas and interests. |
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The president was spared removal from office but another crisis quickly surfaced, this one in Kosovo. |
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In a referendum in 1992, Montenegrins voted in favour of federation with Serbia and Kosovo. |
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Soldiers interviewed in Kosovo emphatically expressed their support for nationbuilding. |
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He weaves together critical exegesis with discussion of Kosovo, diplomacy, and the war itself. |
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They observed that the strategy for Albanian expansion in Macedonia was identical to the one seen in Kosovo. |
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In fact over the past ten days about 290,000 people have been forcibly expelled from Kosovo. |
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Shorthorn cattle are now suitable for the climate in Kosovo, so the chosen cows are black and white Friesians. |
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In fact, the most distressing visuals are the sad scenes of refugees who fled the bombing of Kosovo. |
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Even before he was uplinking satellites in Kosovo, Meyer was a resourceful guy. |
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Soon a long line of tractors streamed over the lone bridge connecting Kosovo with Albania. |
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It is currently held as an asset under the custodianship of the United Nations Mission in Kosovo through the Kosovo Trust Agency. |
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The breach in the Left already opened up by the war in Kosovo reached a crisis. |
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And outside the European Union itself, countries including Montenegro and Kosovo will also be adopting the euro as their sole legal tender to replace the Deutschmark. |
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Speaking Kosovo, Macedonian, Serbian, Bosnian, Croat, Slovak, and English weren't enough, and he began immersing himself in Bulgarian and Romanian. |
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The inexpensive bus rides will take Serbians to other parts of Kosovo for the day as a way to reassure them they are can move safely throughout the country. |
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Their objective is to partition Macedonia, breaking off a chunk of territory on its western border as an Albanian enclave that would join with Kosovo and Albania. |
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So why should it surprise us that Nato and the UN thought the best thing for Kosovo would be first to partition Serbia and Kosovo, second to partition the towns within Kosovo? |
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The Immigration Minister took the decision to send them back, saying the couple's two children were young enough to be able to readapt to life in Kosovo. |
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All Albanians north of the Shkumbin, along with the Albanians of Montenegro, Kosovo, and most of Macedonia, speak Gheg dialects with their characteristic nasalization. |
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Foreign-policy experts rush to compare Libya to Bosnia, the Punic Wars, Iraq, Kosovo, Thermopylae, and so forth. |
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In addition, a UN inquiry in Kosovo had found that eight of eleven areas where the shells had been used were still contaminated with low-level radiation. |
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As long as they stayed out of NATO's hair, that is, the Russians could go on make-believing that they were playing a crucial role in the occupation of Kosovo. |
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On the other hand, imposing the criteria of ethnically defined borders in relation to Kosovo held even greater dangers than in the rest of former Yugoslavia. |
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At the heart of his masterful Elegy for Kosovo, the Albanian fabulist Ismail Kadare places the poignant tale of two fourteenth-century minstrels joined in flight. |
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Albanian guerrillas with backing from Kosovo began operating in Macedonia earlier this year, bringing the majority Orthodox Slav country to the brink of civil war. |
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It sought to reopen the painstakingly negotiated political status of Kosovo and deleted all of the proposed implementation measures. |
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Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, although its independence is not universally recognized by other states. |
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Current guidelines stem in part from the March 1999 Kosovo crisis in which war forced thousands of Kosovar Albanians into refugee camps. |
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Increased communication between Kosovar Albanians and Kosovo Serbs through formal and informal dialogue. |
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Haradinaj, a former leader of the rebel Kosovo Liberation Army, appealed to his Cabinet to remain calm, the officials said. |
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The horrible situation for the Serbian people in the provinces of Kosovo and Metohia is the result of long-term anti-Serbian policies. |
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Kosovo was at the centre of the Serbian mythscape but it was not, in ethnic terms, an unequivocally Serbian territory. |
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For example, the TRNC's mail goes via Turkey, Somaliland's mail via Ethiopia, and Kosovo via Serbia. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo are considered potential candidates for membership. |
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The project is to be implemented over a period of four years by the Ministry of Education, Science, and Technology of the Republic of Kosovo. |
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In turn, Kosovar president said '' It gives me an immense pleasure to welcome you to the Republic of Kosovo. |
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The President said this while speaking to Enver Hoxhaj Foreign Minister of Republic of Kosovo during meeting at the Presidency on Monday. |
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The recognition of the Republic of Kosovo came in a statement issued today by the Foreign Ministry. |
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The Government of the Republic of Kosovo is resolved to enhance and promote cooperation with the Republic of Macedonia for a number of reasons. |
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The four trains that carried redeploying Army equipment from Kosovo followed a familiar railroad route, but arrived at an unfamiliar destination. |
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Koha information says that this strategic point is to be a neutral zone for Kosovo as well. |
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According to a report quoted by Mark Thompson, as many as 580,000 inhabitants of Kosovo were arrested, interrogated, interned or reprimanded. |
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There was a perception among Serbian nationalists that Serbs were being driven out of Kosovo. |
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On 23 March the Assembly of Kosovo voted to accept the proposed amendments although most Albanian delegates abstained. |
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On 26 June 1990 Serbian authorities closed the Kosovo Assembly, citing special circumstances. |
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On 7 September 1990 the Constitution of the Republic of Kosovo was promulgated by the disbanded Assembly of Kosovo. |
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On 24 May 1992 Kosovar Albanians held unofficial elections for an assembly and president of the Republic of Kosovo. |
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On 22 April 1996, four attacks on Serbian security personnel were carried out almost simultaneously in several parts of Kosovo. |
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It is widely believed that the KLA received financial and material support from the Kosovo Albanian diaspora. |
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At the same time, Western diplomats insisted that Kosovo be discussed, and that Yugoslavia be responsive to Albanian demands there. |
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In early April, Serbia arranged for a referendum on the issue of foreign interference in Kosovo. |
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It was these meetings which were shaping what was to be the peace plan to be discussed during a period of planned NATO occupation of Kosovo. |
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Such attacks took place during the Rambouillet talks in February and as the Kosovo Verification Agreement unraveled in March. |
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Pristina, the capital of Kosovo, had been subjected to heavy firefights and segregation according to OSCE reports. |
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Together with British special forces, Norwegian special forces were the first to cross over the border into Kosovo. |
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Following the military campaign, the involvement of Russian peacekeepers proved to be tense and challenging to the NATO Kosovo force. |
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The Russians expected to have an independent sector of Kosovo, only to be unhappily surprised with the prospect of operating under NATO command. |
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The general opinion was the DLK structures and its leader would vanish from the political scene of Kosovo after the Yugoslav withdrawal. |
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An estimated 800,000 Kosovo Albanians fled and an estimated 7,000 to 9,000 were killed, according to The New York Times. |
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According to the 1991 Yugoslavia Census there were 194,190 Serbs and 45,745 Romani in Kosovo. |
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According to the Human Rights Watch, 200,000 Serbs and thousands of Roma fled from Kosovo during and after the war. |
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The Kosovo war had a number of important consequences in terms of the military and political outcome. |
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In post-war Kosovo, unexploded cluster bomblets caused more civilian deaths than landmines. |
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It can be used for international travel to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo and Albania instead of the passport. |
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And it was learned that the Police Authority has approved the secondment of six RUC officers to Kosovo to help recover bodies. |
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After 12 months back at Cardiff Central, DI Norman embarked on his second overseas secondment, to spearhead a taskforce in Kosovo. |
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The Lithuanian Armed Forces currently have deployed personnel on international missions in Afghanistan, Kosovo, Mali and Somalia. |
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Resources of energy are scarce, except in the territory of Kosovo, where considerable coal, lead, zinc, chromium and silver deposits are located. |
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In 1999, transport on the river was made difficult by the NATO bombing of three bridges in Serbia during the Kosovo War. |
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Currently, larger contingents of Austrian forces are deployed in Bosnia and Kosovo. |
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Following the Battle of Kosovo, much of the Balkans became dominated by the Ottomans. |
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On 8 July 2010, Blair was awarded the Order of Freedom by the President of Kosovo, Fatmir Limaj. |
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The events of 1999 in Kosovo and East Timor provide an important opportunity to reflect on the practice of humanitarian intervention. |
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In theory Kosovo is supervised by EU missions, with justice and policing personal training and helping to build up the state institutions. |
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In 1999, British forces under SFOR command were sent to Kosovo and the contingent increased to 19,000 troops. |
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Meanwhile, ethnic nationalism experienced a renaissance in the 1980s, after violence broke out in Kosovo. |
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The war ended with the Kumanovo Treaty, with Yugoslav and Serb forces agreeing to withdraw from Kosovo to make way for an international presence. |
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In 1956 a number of Albanians went on trial in Kosovo on charges of espionage and subversion. |
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He places his latest novel, Despot i 6rtva, in the despotate of Serbia in the fifteenth century, almost a hundred years after the battle of Kosovo. |
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Things can get especially tense, he said, when the evictees are former soldiers of the Kosovo Liberation Army, the separatist guerrilla group that fought the Serbs. |
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Setting aside the intervention in Sierra Leone, recent UK military operations in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq and, most recently, Libya, have followed this approach. |
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Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo are officially recognised as potential candidates, with Bosnia and Herzegovina having submitted a membership application. |
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Abduli told Spic that he and his three colleagues had not been paid salaries for six months and cover on their own the costs for research and trips to Kosovo. |
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Nearly one million refugees had fled Kosovo, and part of KFOR's mandate was to protect the humanitarian missions, in addition to deterring violence. |
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The Ottoman victory at Kosovo in 1389 effectively marked the end of Serbian power in the region, paving the way for Ottoman expansion into Europe. |
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The effects of NATO high explosives on the camps and infrastructure of the Serbian occupiers of Kosovo were compounded by Milosevic's scorched-earth policies. |
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Montenegro and Kosovo unilaterally adopted the euro when it launched. |
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In the same manner as Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo is under heavy EU influence, particularly after the de facto transfer from UN to EU authority. |
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Finally, in late September, a determined effort was made to clear the KLA out of the northern and central parts of Kosovo and out of the Drenica valley itself. |
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However, when retreating from Kosovo after NATO intervention, Yugoslav units appeared combat effective with high morale and displaying large holdings of undamaged equipment. |
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Between early 1993 and June 2010, 72 British military personnel died during operations in the former Yugoslavian countries of Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia. |
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The third operation, the first major deployment under Blair, was in Kosovo in 1999, where British forces led a NATO intervention in the Kosovo War. |
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It was the second major operation of the Blair government, after Kosovo. |
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The last major European outbreak of smallpox was in 1972 in Yugoslavia, after a pilgrim from Kosovo returned from the Middle East, where he had contracted the virus. |
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Finland has been active participant in the Afghanistan and Kosovo. |
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As a result of the Kosovo War, the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation created a second NATO medal, the NATO Medal for Kosovo Service, an international military decoration. |
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Student demonstrations and riots in Belgrade in June 1968 spread to Kosovo in November of the same year, but Yugoslav security forces quelled them. |
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In western Kosovo yesterday, the bodies of two Serbs, believed to have been kidnapped by Albanian militants a week ago, were found on a road near Decani. |
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That is, Yugoslav troops would have to leave Kosovo and be replaced by international peacekeepers to ensure that the Albanian refugees could return to their homes. |
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In Kosovo an increasingly poisonous atmosphere between Serbs and Albanians led to wild rumors being spread and otherwise trivial incidents being blown out of proportion. |
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By the start of April, the conflict appeared little closer to a resolution and NATO countries began to seriously consider conducting ground operations in Kosovo. |
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A variety of weapons were used by the Yugoslav security forces and the Kosovo Liberation Army, NATO only operated aircraft and naval units during the conflict. |
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On 5 July the Serbian Assembly dissolved the Kosovo Assembly. |
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As Blair is credited as being instrumental in ending the conflict in Kosovo, some boys born in that country following the war have been given the name Toni or Tonibler. |
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The proposal is presented together with the Commission's positive assessment confirming that Kosovo has fulfilled the requirements of its visa liberalisation roadmap. |
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The Armed Forces of the Republic of Kosovo known as FARK, were established in order to place DLK as a military factor in addition to a political one. |
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However, the Nato attack on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999 was roundly applauded for forcing Slobodan Milosevic to accept terms which ended the conflict in Kosovo. |
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Military stockpiles were looted with impunity by criminal gangs, with much of the hardware ending up in western Kosovo and boosting the growing KLA arsenal. |
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That explains why nobody outside the country is really interested in the results of the elections in the cities where Kosovo Albanians have cast their vote. |
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