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15–19 March 1999 · 1999

The Paris talks and the Albanian delegation's signature

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.
Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.The 1998–1999 warDiplomacy

Editorial status: Awaiting verificationDrafted from the cited sources; not yet fully reviewed by the editors.

Key facts

Date
15–19 March 1999
Place
Unknown
Sources
3
Evidence status
Evidence status: Documented. Supported by contemporaneous documents, institutional reports or independent studies that corroborate one another.

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].

Sources

  1. [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. [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. [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.

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