- Date of the event
- Place
- Unknown
- Evidence status
- Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.
In the second round, in Paris on 15–19 March 1999, the Kosovo Albanian delegation signed the Rambouillet draft on 18 March; the FRY/Serbian delegation submitted its own version without the implementation chapters. On 19 March the co-chairmen suspended the talks.
HRW writes that the Albanian delegation signed “under great pressure from the West” [1]. Holbrooke's final talks in Belgrade failed on 23 March [2].
Historical context
1999
From the Reçak massacre to the entry of KFOR: six months that saw failed negotiations, NATO's intervention, the mass expulsion of Albanians and crimes documented by international courts.
Read the chapter “1999: Reçak, expulsions and the end of the war”Sources
- [1]Fred Abrahams, Benjamin Ward. Under Orders: War Crimes in Kosovo. 2001-10-26. https://www.hrw.org/reports/2001/kosovo/. Accessed 2026-09-16.
- [2]Tribunali Penal Ndërkombëtar për ish-Jugosllavinë (ICTY). Prosecutor v. Milutinović et al., Judgement, Volume 1 of 4. 2009-02-26. IT-05-87-T. https://www.icty.org/x/cases/milutinovic/tjug/en/jud090226-e1of4.pdf. Accessed 2026-09-16. — paras 392–398
- [3]Departamenti i Shtetit i SHBA-së (faqja arkivore 1997–2001). Rambouillet Agreement: Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosovo. https://1997-2001.state.gov/regions/eur/ksvo_rambouillet_text.html. Accessed 2026-09-16.