However, Nato's political victory was far less conclusive. The ending of the conflict has left the province with what promises to be an indefinite and significant garrison of Nato troops. Inside Kosovo, relations between the remaining Serbs and the Albanian majority are bitter and explosive. The United Nations civil administration is under-resourced. Power Though diplomats don't like to admit it, the international community has established a strange kind of power-sharing arrangement in Kosovo between the UN and Nato on the one hand, and the heirs of the Kosovo Liberation Army on the other.
Nobody seems to have a clear idea about Kosovo's future.
During the conflict there was much talk of bringing the Balkans into the mainstream of Europe. In the aftermath of the air campaign there has been little action to implement such lofty sentiments. The Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic is still in power in Belgrade. Just as the Iraqi ruler Saddam Hussein survived the Gulf War and saw out his chief adversary, former President George Bush, so Mr Milosevic's regime looks set to see out President Bill Clinton's term of office. Indeed in one of those ironies of history, if the Republicans win this year's US presidential race, President Saddam Hussein could be facing a second President George Bush in a few months' time.