On February sixth days (JiMao years), March 23, 1999, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana decided to carry out a large-scale air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.


NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana
Kosovo independence movement since April 1992 Yugoslavia split into five rising. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to send armed forces to maintain national unity in Kosovo, and launched armed action. So that the Kosovo issue for the United States and Western countries to provide a rare golden opportunity to weaken the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, unplug the eastward expansion of NATO on the road householders. end of
1999, the United States and NATO issued a threat of military intervention, the Republic of Serbian and Kosovo Albanian forces representatives must be on the outskirts of Paris, France on February 6 to begin peace negotiations in Rambouillet. In the United States to enlighten and private commitments under the premise of the Kosovo Albanians agreed as scheduled on March 15 signed a peace plan proposed by the Western. On the military side, firmly opposed to NATO troops in Kosovo. So, the the Rambouillet negotiations failed peace talks failed. In March 1999 the evening of 22 and 23 am, U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke and Yugoslav President Milosevic's two rounds of talks have not been successful. Reference 23 pm March 1999, at NATO headquarters in Brussels, NATO Secretary-General Javier Solana announced that command, decided to carry out massive air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. 8:00 local time on the evening of March 24, six B-52 bombers in NATO missile launched against Yugoslavia, at the same time, the series of NATO's more than 70 aircraft took off from Italy and the base to kick off a prelude to the war.