10th anniversary of the Rambouillet talks
February 6 marks the 10th anniversary of the Rambouillet talks on Kosovo, which failure led to the NATO bombings of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro).
(KosovoCompromise Staff) Friday, February 06, 2009
The peace conference, which begin in the castle of Rambouillet, near Paris, on February 6, 1999, was attended by representatives of Serbia and of Kosovo Albanians, with the mediation of US, EU and Russian representatives.
The ambitious conference was however ill-prepared, too early and without adequate pre-negotiations, and as such was doomed to fail.
"The text of the Rambouillet negotiations, under which Serbia was called on to accept NATO troops on its territory, was a provocation and an excuse to start the bombings. The Rambouillet plan was a document no Serb could accept. It was a poor diplomatic document which should have never appeared in such a form", form US State Secretary Henry Kissinger told the Daily Telegraph in June 1999.
