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crisis and Kosovo
Almost immediately the party was plunged into a crisis by the question of German participation in the NATO actions in Kosovo.
During the Kosovo crisis of 1999, 600 Belgian paratroopers participated in Operation Allied Harbour, a NATO operation to protect and provide assistance to the huge number of ethnic Albanian refugees in Albania and Macedonia.
Military intervention by Yugoslav security forces led by Slobodan Milošević and Serb militia within Kosovo in response to diverse operations led by the KLA prompted an exodus of Kosovar Albanians / Serbs and a refugee crisis that eventually caused NATO to intervene militarily in order to stop what was widely identified as an ongoing campaign of ethnic cleansing.
These conflicts included a customs dispute with Austria-Hungary beginning in 1906 ( commonly referred to as the " Pig War "), the Bosnian crisis of 1908 – 1909 in which Serbia assumed an attitude of protest over Austria-Hungary's annexation of Bosnia-Herzegovina ( ending in Serbian acquiescence without compensation in March 1909 ), and finally the two Balkan Wars of 1912 – 1913 in which Serbia conquered Macedonia and Kosovo from the Ottoman Empire.
From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Ischinger was Director of the Policy Planning Staff ; from 1995 to 1998, as Director General for Political Affairs ( Political Director ), Mr. Ischinger participated in a number of international negotiating processes, including the Bosnia Peace Talks at Dayton, OH, the negotiations concerning the NATO-Russia Founding Act, as well as the negotiations on EU and NATO enlargement and on the Kosovo crisis.
He launched several campaigns in foreign policy, such as a failed humanitarian mission to Darfur and a proposal for the solution of the political crisis in Kosovo.
In April 1999, V Corps deployed the headquarters and subordinate units to Albania as Task Force Hawk, a force involved in the on-going crisis in Kosovo.
Klaus criticised NATO bombings of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo crisis.
Travelling with the EU foreign and security policy spokesman Javier Solana in Macedonia during the Kosovo / Macedonian crisis, she negotiated an agreement that averted a civil war in the country.
The UK government has issued a similar warning to travelers advising against all travel to the north east border areas ( the districts of Kukes, Has and Tropoje ) between Albania and Kosovo because of the risk of unexploded ordnance placed during the 1999 Kosovo crisis and the poor condition of the roads.
At the time of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, Kosovo was facing a grave humanitarian crisis, with military forces from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia ( FRY ) and the Kosovo Liberation Army ( KLA ) in daily engagement.
In March 1989, the crisis in Yugoslavia deepened after the adoption of amendments to the Serbian Constitution that allowed the government of Serbia to impose dominance over the autonomous provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina.
Since then, JDC relief and recovery efforts have assisted tens of thousands of people left vulnerable in the wake of the mid-90s civil war in Rwanda, the Kosovo refugee crisis, the devastating 1999 earthquake in Turkey, and the 2004 tsunami in South Asia.
The Hungarian membership to NATO demanded its involvement in Yugoslavia's Kosovo crisis and modernization of its army.
Around this time Šešelj became very critical of the way that the national question was dealt with in Yugoslavia: he spoke out in favour of the use of force against Kosovo Albanians and denounced the passivity of the Serbian political leadership in handling the Kosovo crisis.
In 1999, in response to the escalating crisis in Kosovo, the Scottish Refugee Council worked with the Refugee Action, UNHCR and other partners to set up reception centres as part of a humanitarian evacuation programme.
Cole spent time in Kosovo during the 1999 crisis, and in 2001, spent two months in Afghanistan.
The AMF ( L ) formed the core of the Albania Force ( AFOR ), a NATO-led international force responsible for establishing and delivering humanitarian aid to refugees from Kosovo in Albania during the Kosovo crisis in 1999.
During the Kosovo crisis in 1999, Khan led the UNHCR team in the Republic of Macedonia.
The piece was commissioned by the Royal Armouries Museum for the Millennium celebrations, and to mark the museum's move from London to Leeds, and it was dedicated to victims of the Kosovo crisis.

crisis and 1986
On October 27, 1986, President Reagan signed a drug enforcement bill into law, which granted $ 1. 7 billion in funding to fight the crisis and ensured a mandatory minimum penalty for drug offenses.
* April 30 – Lebanon hostage crisis: Lebanese kidnappers release American educator Frank H. Reed, who had been held hostage since September 1986.
Elsewhere, the plan for university reform ( plan Devaquet ) caused a crisis in 1986 when a young man named Malik Oussekine ( 1964 – 1986 ) was killed by the police, leading to massive demonstrations and the proposal's withdrawal.
* May 16, 1986: The Cokeville Elementary School hostage crisis In a ransom scheme, David and Doris Young, both in their forties, took 150 students and teachers hostage.
* The Westland affair, a 1986 British political crisis stemming from the government's ownership of Westland Aircraft
When the result of the election became clear Lange asked Muldoon to devalue the dollar, which he refused to do, resulting in a constitutional crisis and precipitating some of the changes in the Constitution Act 1986.
Stymied by economic crisis, FitzGerald tried to rescue some of his ambitions to reform the State and he proposed, in the summer of 1986, a referendum to change the Constitution to allow for divorce.
To avert a vaccine crisis, Congress in 1986 passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act ( NCVIA ), which established a federal no-fault system to compensate victims of injury caused by mandated vaccines.
However, during the Asian financial crisis, Kia declared bankruptcy in 1997 ; in 1998 Hyundai Motor Company acquired 51 % of the company outbidding Ford Motor Company which had owned an interest in Kia Motors since 1986.
He was appointed as Fulham manager in April 1984, though he resigned in June 1986 after a financial crisis led to his team suffering relegation.
During 1984 – 1986, Shabak experienced a major crisis following the Kav 300 affair in which two terrorists who hijacked a bus and took hostages were executed without trial by Shabak officers, who later covered up the event and conspired to frame a senior IDF officer.
These factors have contributed to the " serials crisis "-from 1986 – 2005, the number of serials purchased has increased an average of 1. 9 % per year while total expenditures on serials has increased 7. 6 % per year.
In 1986, Syrianair had to suspend flights to one of its long-standing and most important destinations, London, because of a diplomatic crisis between the UK and Syria following the Hindawi affair.
After winning the Asian Championship, the Philippines qualified for the 1986 FIBA World Championship at Madrid, Spain, but due to the political crisis in the country ( that led to the 1986 Philippine People Power EDSA Revolution ), the national team did not participate in the tournament.
In January 1986, Eastern faced another financial crisis and sought more concessions from its unions.
* 1986: John Camp, St. Paul Pioneer Press and Dispatch, " for his five-part series examining the life of an American farm family faced with the worst U. S. agricultural crisis since the Depression.
In October 1985 he was elected to the YSP Politburo and as a Secretary of the Central Committee, but the crisis had erupted on January 13, 1986, into a violent struggle in Aden between Ali Nasir's supporters and opponents.
At the height of the 1986 Philippine political crisis, with the country teetering on the brink of a bloody civil war, Marcos called Senator Laxalt to see if President Reagan wanted him to leave office.
U. S. General Accounting Office estimated cost of the crisis to around USD $ 160. 1 billion, about $ 124. 6 billion of which was directly paid for by the U. S. government from 1986 to 1996.
Due to economic crisis and severe inflation, a second cruzeiro was released in 1967 and circulated up to 1986.
* 1986 -- The Taiwan confrontation crisis.
Despite these changes, by the fall of 1986, WNBC was in a ratings crisis.

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