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implementation of these provisions was entrusted to international
military and civilian missions. The civilian mission was under the
control of the United Nations, whereas the military mission was the
responsibility of nato, which was described as the “substantial participant
in the international security presence” authorized to appoint
the commander in chief.
The situation Resolution 1244 established in Kosovo transcended
the framework of known legal-political categories. Because of its
exclusion of the fry army and police from Kosovo and its ban on
their return to the province, Resolution 1244 effectively suspended
fry sovereignty in Kosovo and substituted an international administration
for that of Serbia. Resolution 1244 also commanded “full
compliance with the Rambouillet agreement,” which the Serbian
National Assembly had rejected. The resolution authorized the un
secretary-general to “establish an international civil presence in
Kosovo in order to provide an interim administration for Kosovo
under which the people of Kosovo can enjoy substantial autonomy
within the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.” The Group of Eight foreign
ministers had envisaged a “political process towards the establishment
of an interim political framework agreement providing for
substantial self-government for Kosovo, taking full account of the
Rambouillet accords and the principles of sovereignty and territorial
integrity of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the other countries
of the region.” 440 Thus, like the Dayton Accords, the Rambouillet
agreement was enforced by the use of force.
The chaos that the Serbian police and paramilitary and the
Yugoslav Army left in the wake of their withdrawal radically
changed Kosovo’s society: having been deprived of all its institutions,
it survived by reliance on clan and family ties. When the natoled
Kosovo Force (kfor) arrived, it found no civil government or
organized police force, only the widespread destruction of homes
440 Resolution 1244 (1999) adopted by the Security Council at its 4011 th Meeting on 10 June 1999
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