[8] The United Kingdom participated in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia, which resulted in a UN administration of Kosovo.

On 25 April 2008, the British Government announced that it would send a battle-group based on 2 Rifles, a light infantry battalion of about 600 soldiers, to help maintain public order to serve as Peacekeepers in EULEX, an EU Police, Civilian and Law Mission in Kosovo.

The Kosovo War, which Prime Minister Tony Blair had advocated on moral grounds, was initially a failure when it relied solely on air strikes; he believed that the threat of a ground offensive, which Bill Clinton had initially ruled out, was necessary to convince Serbia's President Slobodan Milošević to withdraw.

The United Kingdom has acted as Kosovo’s protector, spearheading efforts to build state institutions and establish it on the international stage.

[13] The British Embassy in Pristina (Albanian: Ambasada Britanike në Kosovë, Serbian: Британска амбасада у Косову) is the United Kingdom's diplomatic mission to Kosovo.