Australia–Kosovo relations
{'<entity_0>': 'Australia–Kosovo relations', '<entity_1>': 'Australia', '<entity_2>': 'Kosovo'}
[['Australia–Kosovo relations', 'country', 'Australia'], ['Australia–Kosovo relations', 'participant', 'Australia'], ['Australia–Kosovo relations', 'participant', 'Kosovo']]
<entity_0> refer to the bilateral relations of <entity_1> and <entity_2>. <entity_2> and <entity_1> officially established diplomatic relations on 21 May 2008. The Ambassador of <entity_1> to <entity_2> is subordinate to the embassy in Vienna. In 1999, <entity_1> initially refused to join NATO in accepting extra refugees from <entity_2>, offering only temporary asylum to visitors trapped in <entity_1> by the war in Yugoslavia. This decision was quickly overruled by Prime Minister John Howard who authorised nearly 4,000 <entity_2> refugees temporary visas to stay in <entity_1>. In 2000, the forced return of refugees from <entity_2> by <entity_1> and numerous other countries was criticised by the head of the United Nations administration in <entity_2>, Bernard Kouchner. On the day <entity_2> declared independence, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd of <entity_1> said that "We've already indicated to our diplomatic representatives around the world that this (independence) would be an appropriate course of action".
['bilateral relation']