5-Kilometre-wide demilitarized zone from 1999-2001
Not to be confused with Demilitarized zone, International zone, or Buffer zone.
Ground Safety Zone
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.
Date
14 March 2001 – 1 June 2001
Location
Ground Safety Zone
Result
Končulj Agreement
Yugoslavia retakes the GSZ
UÇPMB disbanded
Low intensity skirmishes continue
Territorial changes
FR Yugoslavia regains control of demilitarized Ground Safety Zone, including around 580 square kilometres (220 sq mi) previously held by the UÇPMB
Belligerents
UÇPMB
FR Yugoslavia
Commanders and leaders
Muhamet Xhemajli Ridvan Qazimi † Shaqir Shaqiri Mustafa Shaqiri
Ninoslav Krstić Goran Radosavljević Nebojša Čović
Strength
1,600 militants[1]
3,500–5,000 personnel[2] 100 JSO members
Casualties and losses
27 killed 150 surrendered to Serbian Police 400 surrendered to KFOR[3]
24 policemen and soldiers killed 77 wounded
Serbia UÇPMB Kosovo (KFOR and UNMIK)
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.
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UÇPMB
FR Yugoslavia
100 JSO members