Kumanovo Agreement

The Agreement of Kumanovo (Serbian: Vojno - Tehnicki sporazum u Kumanovu or Kumanovski sporazum ) was signed on 9 June 1999 near Kumanovo in the military airfield. The agreement marked the termination and the end of Operation Allied Force, which had a March 24, held until June 10, 1999 military operation by NATO against the former Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. A day later, the resolution was adopted in 1244 by the United Nations.

The agreement was signed by the General Svetozar Marjanovic of the Yugoslav Army, the Police General Obrad Stevanovic and the British General Mike Jackson.

The main provisions

• Cessation of hostilities between NATO troops with the Yugoslav army and Serbian police.
• The withdrawal of the Yugoslav army and Serbian police from Kosovo in the period of 11 days.
• Establishing a safety zone of the administrative border with Kosovo within the Republic of Serbia and Montenegro.
• The obligation of KFOR troops to disarm the KLA.

Implementation

With the signing of the agreement conditions were created for the Yugoslav army and Serbian police and at the same time began a kind of race between the KFOR and the Russian troops which were stationed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and NATO whose forces were stationed in Albania and Macedonia.

The U.S. General Wesley Clark ordered the British General Mike Jackson, who was then commander of KFOR to intercept the Russians, and thus to prevent the Russians seize the airport, this led to an aggravation of the situation and an incident at the Slatina airport.

That same morning, a little after five clock, within the territory of Macedonia and Kosovo, the first British troops were deployed. With six transport helicopters, crossed the British paratroopers and members of the special forces un only the territory of the southern Serbian province in the column of British and French military vehicles.

The first contingent of about 800 German soldiers in KFOR were, at noon on that day already on the Macedonian territory in Blace, along with the British troops, while the members of the Italian armed forces in the night between 14 and 15 June in Peć, a German KFOR contingent in met.