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1 September 1996 · 1996–1997

The Milošević–Rugova education agreement

On 1 September 1996 Slobodan Milošević and Ibrahim Rugova signed an agreement, mediated by the Community of Sant'Egidio, to return Albanian pupils, students and teachers to school buildings. It was largely not implemented.
Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.Before the warPoliticsPeaceful resistance

Editorial status: Awaiting verificationDrafted from the cited sources; not yet fully reviewed by the editors.

Key facts

Date
1 September 1996
Place
Unknown
Sources
2
Evidence status
Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.

Responsibility for the failure is disputed: the Sant'Egidio mediator blamed the Serbian side in a June 1998 letter, while Serbian officials told the ICTY the government intended to implement it. An implementation accord was signed on 23 March 1998 [1] [2].

Sources

  1. [1]Tribunali Penal Ndërkombëtar për ish-Jugosllavinë (ICTY). Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Judgement, Volume 1 of 4. 2009-02-26. IT-05-87-T. https://www.icty.org/x/cases/milutinovic/tjug/en/jud090226-e1of4.pdf. Accessed 2026-09-16. — paras 234–236
  2. [2]Fred Abrahams, Benjamin Ward. Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo. 2001-10-26. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/. Accessed 2026-09-16.

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