Peace Keeping and Stability
To maintain the peace and to allow the building of the new Bosnia and Herzegovina the NATO led the international peacekeeping force called IFOR, which was made up of 60,000 troops. A smaller group also led by NATO called the Stabilization Force or SROR replaced IFOR. This force was replaced by the European Union peacekeeping force called EUFOR in December 2004.
The military forces and paramilitary groups of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia moved in 1998-99 to expel the Albanians in Kosovo by force, which provoked an extraordinary response from the international community. NATO began bombing targets in Serbia and stationed a force named KFOR in Kosovo to protect the local population.
The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia election in the fall of 2000 saw the defeat of President Slobodan Milosevic and the election of Vojislav Kostunica. By 2001, Milosevic was arrested and transferred to the International Criminal Tribunal at The Hague where he was tried for crimes against humanity.
With the new leadership, the country was allowed back into the UN as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. With this membership in the UN the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) continued. After talks that lasted from 2002 until February 2003, Serbia and Montenegro agreed to be a loose federation of republics that in the future could become independent after a referendum.
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