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The Kosovo Conflict: consequences for the environment & human settlements (1999)

Auteur	UNCHS, UNEP
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Datum	1999
Classificatie	6.05.2.20/02 (VERARMD URANIUM - MILITAIR - (vml) JOEGOSLAVIË)
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The Kosovo Conflict
Consequences for the Environment & Human Settlements
UNEP, UNCHS

Copyright © 1999, United Nations Environment Programme and United Nations 
Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat)
ISBN 92-807-1801-1

The final report of the Joint UNEP/UNCHS (Habitat) Balkans Task Force (BTF) is 
a detailed assessment of the environmental and human settlement consequences of 
the Kosovo conflict. The BTF concludes that the Kosovo conflict did not cause 
an environmental catastrophe affecting the Balkans region as a whole, but that 
pollution detected at four environmental "hot spots" (Pancevo, Kragujevac, Novi 
Sad and Bor), is serious and poses a threat to human health. At these sites, 
all in Serbia, immediate clean-up action, which should be seen as a part of 
humanitarian assistance to the region, is called for. The BTF report also 
concludes that much of the pollution identified pre-dates the conflict, that
 there is widespread evidence of long-term deficiencies in the treatment of 
 hazardous waste, and that in Kosovo the human settlement problem is not just 
 about reconstructing houses but a question of establishing administrative 
 procedures that will give people security of tenure.

 Introduction
Perhaps the most endangered natural resource in times of war is truth.
This became very evident during the Kosovo Conflict. When the
Rambouillet accord failed and NATO air strikes started on 24 March
1999, alarming reports began to appear about the environmental damage
caused by the bombing. Images of Panc˘evo and Novi Sad oil refineries on fire,
toxic chemicals leaking into the River Danube, and bomb craters in protected areas
were competing with those of tens of thousands of refugees fleeing their homes in
Kosovo.

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