| Ground Safety Zone | |||||||||
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| Part of the Insurgency in the Preševo Valley | |||||||||
 Map of the Ground Safety Zone. Note that this is not the entirety of the GSZ, but the area in which the UÇPMB controlled up to the yellow line. | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
 UÇPMB |
 FR Yugoslavia | ||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
Muhamet Xhemajli  Ridvan Qazimi † Shaqir Shaqiri Mustafa Shaqiri |
Ninoslav Krstić Goran Radosavljević Nebojša Čović | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
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1,600 militants[1] |
3,500–5,000 personnel[2] 100 JSO members | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
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27 killed 150 surrendered to Serbian Police 400 surrendered to KFOR[3] |
24 policemen and soldiers killed 77 wounded | ||||||||
The Ground Safety Zone (Serbian: Копнена зона безбедности, Kopnena zona bezbednosti; Albanian: Zona e Sigurisë Tokësore) was a 5-kilometre-wide (3.1 mi) demilitarized zone (DMZ) established in June 1999 after the signing of the Kumanovo agreement which ended the Kosovo War.[4] It bordered the area between inner Republic of Serbia in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (FRY) and Kosovo (governed by the UN).[5][6]
- ^ "Kosovo rebels accept peace talks". BBC News. 7 February 2001. Archived from the original on 22 February 2014.
- ^ "Da li je vreme za združene snage na jugu Srbije".
- ^ Schonauer, Scott (26 May 2001). "Yugoslav troops advance in buffer zone, brace for backlash from top rebel's death". pstripes.osd.mil. Archived from the original on 8 August 2007.
- ^ NATO (1999-06-09). "Military Technical Agreement between the International Security Force ("KFOR") and the Governments of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the Republic of Serbia". Retrieved 2008-08-15.
- ^ "Security Council, welcoming Yugoslavia's acceptance of peace principles, authorises civil, security presence in Kosovo". United Nations. 10 June 1999. Archived from the original on 3 February 2014. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
- ^ "RESOLUTION 1244 (1999)". undocs.org. Archived from the original on 8 March 2021. Retrieved 9 March 2017.