Javier Solana – 23 marca 1999 r.

All efforts to achieve a negotiated, political solution to the Kosovo crisis
having failed, no alternative is open but to take military action.

We are taking action following the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Government's refusal of the International Community's demands:

• Acceptance of the interim political settlement which has been
negotiated at Rambouillet;

• Full observance of limits on the Serb Army and Special Police Forces
agreed on

25 October;

• Ending of excessive and disproportionate use of force in Kosovo.

As we warned on the 30 January, failure to meet these demands would
lead NATO to take whatever measures were necessary to avert a
humanitarian catastrophe.

Doktryna Blair’a – 22 kwietnia 1999 r.

No one in the West who has seen what is happening in Kosovo can
doubt that NATO’s military action is justified. Bismarck famously said
the Balkans were not worth the bones of one Pomeranian Grenadier.
Anyone who has seen the tear stained faces of the hundreds of
thousands of refugees streaming across the border, heard their heart-
rending tales of cruelty or contemplated the unknown fates of those left
behind, knows that Bismarck was wrong.

This is a just war, based not on any territorial ambitions but on values.
But people want to know not only that we are right to take this action
but also that we have clear objectives and that we are going to succeed.

We have five objectives: a verifiable cessation of all combat activities
and killings; the withdrawal of Serb military, police and paramilitary
forces from Kosovo; the deployment of an international military force,
the return of all refugees and unimpeded access for humanitarian aid;
and a political framework for Kosovo building on the Ramnbouillet
accords. We will not negotiate on these aims. Milosevic must accept
them.

Reakcja ONZ na wydarzenia w Kosowie

• Rezolucja RB 1160 (III19998) – potępienie działań serbskich oraz
UCK, groźba

sięgnięcia po środki militarne.

• Rezolucja RB 1199 (IX 1998) – wezwanie do przerwania walk

• Rezolucja RB 1203 (X 1998) – zatwierdzenie porozumienia, „jeśli
misja OBWE

będzie zagrożona, to zostaną przedsięwzięte

konieczne działania w celu

ochrony bezpieczeństwa i swobody misji”

• Rezolucja RB 1244 (VI 1999) – utworzenie KFOR (Kosovo Force).