The End of the Kosovo War

On June 11, 1999 NATO led the KFOR forces into the Kosovo province while the Yugoslav army was pulling out. The Kosovo War had ended, and a new stage of Western involvement began in a region which had been rather neglected over many years although the European Union (EU) and the United States (US) had become involved in Bosnia-Herzegovina with the establishment of the 1995 Dayton Agreement between the country and Croatia and Yugoslavia. Western governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) quickly brought humanitarian aid to the Kosovo region and established a new administration under the umbrella of the United Nations (UN), the so-called UNMIK (UN Mission in Kosovo).