Resolution 1239 (1999) / adopted by the Security Council at its 4003rd meeting, on 14 May 1999

Security Council resolution 1239 (1999) [on relief assistance to Kosovo refugees and internally displaced persons in Kosovo, the Republic of Montenegro and other parts of Yugoslavia]
[Relief assistance to Kosovo refugees and internally displaced persons in Kosovo, the Republic of Montenegro and other parts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia]

Urges UNHCR and other international humanitarian relief organizations and others to contribute resources for humanitarian assistance to the refugees and internally displaced persons. Emphasizes that the humanitarian situation will continue to deteriorate in the absence of a political solution to the crisis consistent with the principles adopted by the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States on 6 May 1999 (S/1999/516), and urges all concerned to work towards this aim.
Commends the efforts that have been taken by Member States, UNHCR and other international humanitarian relief organizations in providing the urgently needed relief assistance to the Kosovo refugees in Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and urges them and other in a position to do so to contribute resources for humanitarian assistance to the refugees and internally displaced persons; invites UNHCR and other international humanitarian relief organizations to extend relief assistance to the internally displaced persons in Kosovo, the Republic of Montenegro and other parts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, as well as to other civilians being affected by the ongoing crisis; calls for access for UN and all other humanitarian personnel operating in Kosovo and other parts of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; emphasizes that the humanitarian situation will continue to deteriorate in the absence of a political solution to the crisis consistent with the principles adopted by the Foreign Ministers of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Russian Federation, the United Kingdom and the United States on 6 May 1999 (S/1999/516), and urges all concerned to work towards this aim.

Adopted 13-0-2, 4003rd meeting

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