The agreement, signed on 9 June 1999 in what is now northern Macedonia, ended the military conflict and the forced expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Kosovo Albanians by Serbian forces. The following day, on 10 June, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1244, which placed Kosovo under provisional UN administration and security was taken over by NATO forces (KFOR).
In the spring of 1999, NATO launched a 78-day air operation called "Allied Force" to stop Belgrade's violence and repression of Kosovo Albanians. The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia later found that Yugoslav forces had committed serious human rights violations and crimes against humanity, including during the NATO campaign.
The war in Kosovo was the last armed conflict waged by Milosevic on the territory of disintegrating Yugoslavia. His reign also saw the bloody aggressions against Slovenia, Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives and forced over 2 million people to flee their homes.
Milosevic was ousted from power in October 2000 and handed over to the International Tribunal in The Hague in 2001. He died in custody in 2006 before being finally convicted of the war crimes. | BGNES