Kosovo War

Serbian officials held commemorations on Friday in memory of the civilians who were killed during NATO's bombing campaign against Yugoslavia in 1999, a military intervention that ended the Kosovo war.

According to him, the goal was to seize part of the territory of Serbia, and the decision was made much earlier.
As he told Tanjug on the occasion of the anniversary of the NATO aggression, the attack of the North Atlantic Alliance aimed to get NATO a permanent base in the Balkans in order to implement the expansion strategy to the east.

"On March 24, I noticed that my parents were worried more than ever. It was an anxious day. My father did not have to go to work," Dimitrijevic told BIRN. "In the evening we heard that the bombing had started and there were explosions."

The order for the attack was issued by Javier Solana, the Secretary General of NATO at the time, to the then commander of the allied forces, US General Wesley Clark, although there was no UN Security Council approval. It was an obvious precedent.

BELGRADE - The 1999 NATO aggression on the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia failed to accomplish its war objectives, so the aggression on Serbia is ongoing, but by different means, through Western efforts to push the so-called Kosovo into international organisations, a Belgrade conference was told on Thursday.

"I welcome the agreement and now it is important to quickly and fully implement the agreement between Belgrade and Pristina. And of course, we fully support the dialogue that the EU makes possible," Stoltenberg told reporters, as quoted by Reporter.

Kosovo's Justice Minister Albulena Haxhiu said on Sunday that she has written to her Serbian counterpart Maja Popovic asking for Nezir Mehmetaj and Petrit Dula, who have both been charged with war crimes by Serbia, to be sent back to Kosovo, despite the lack of legal cooperation between the two countries.

Kosovo's Special Prosecution announced on Tuesday that a Kosovo Serb policeman had been arrested on war crimes charges for allegedly beating and torturing a person at the police station in Kamenice/Kamenica in 1999, while on official duty.

The Kosovo Specialist Chambers in The Hague has published a less redacted version of the indictment of former Kosovo President Hashim Thaci, who goes on trial with three other Kosovo Liberation Army, KLA ex-officers next month, giving more details of the war crimes and crimes against humanity charges against them.

BELGRADE - Serbian First Deputy PM and FM Ivica Dacic met with NATO Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Operations Burcu San on Tuesday to discuss the present Serbia-NATO cooperation, the security situation in Kosovo-Metohija and the role of the NATO-led KFOR mission.