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Date 1998 - 1999
Location Kosovo
Participants Kosovo • Kosovo Liberation Army • Montenegro • Serbia

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Dayton Accords
Slobodan Milošević
president of Yugoslavia
Hashim Thaçi
Hashim Thaçi
president of Kosovo

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