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Contact Group · Kontakt grupa — 1994 –

Contact Group

An informal diplomatic format of major powers — the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Italy — that coordinated policy towards the former Yugoslavia. In 1998–1999 it set out demands on the parties in Kosovo and convened the Rambouillet talks in February 1999. Disagreements among its members, especially with Russia, limited joint action in the Security Council.

Photographs

French château with turrets and a flower garden in front.
The Château de Rambouillet in France, the venue of the Kosovo talks in February 1999. Photograph taken in 2021.Photo: Trougnouf (Benoit Brummer) · 2021-09-04 · CC BY-SA 4.0
Civilian and military officials seated around a conference table.
NATO Secretary General Javier Solana meets US Secretary of Defense William Cohen at the Pentagon on 15 March 1999. They discussed NATO's reaction should Yugoslavia refuse to sign the peace agreement worked out in Rambouillet.Photo: Robert D. Ward · 1999-03-15 · Domen publik (Public domain)

Sources

  1. [1]Ivo H. Daalder, Michael E. O’Hanlon. Winning Ugly: NATO's War to Save Kosovo. Brookings Institution Press, 2001-10-01. https://www.brookings.edu/books/winning-ugly/. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  2. [2]David L. Phillips. Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention. The MIT Press, 2012-07-20. https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9590.001.0001. Accessed 2026-09-16.
  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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