Kosovo celebrates Liberation Day

(ANSA) - BELGRADE, JUN 12 - Kosovo commemorated Liberation Day today, the 25th anniversary of the end of the armed conflict, with the withdrawal of Slobodan Milosevic's Serbian forces and the arrival of approximately 40,000 KFOR soldiers, the NATO peacekeeping forces. The withdrawal of Belgrade's troops came after NATO bombed Serbia for 78 days between March and June 1999, killing and injuring thousands of people, both military and civilian, and causing massive destruction. The raids ended on June 10th, when the Kumanovo agreement was signed and Resolution 1244 was adopted by the UN Security Council. At the same time, NATO troops began to enter Kosovo. (ANSA).