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...bombings became inevitable when Milosevic refused to accept the Rambouillet Agreement's provision for NATO peacekeeping troops in Kosovo. Although the alliance remains committed to the Rambouillet principles, the agreement itself, as Madeleine Albright put it, "has been overtaken by events." Neither the Serbs nor the Kosovar Albanians are now likely to accept an autonomous Kosovo within Serbia under the protection of NATO peacekeepers...
...Milosevic's initial "peace offer" came in the form of a "unilateral cease-fire" in Kosovo. On April 6 Belgrade announced a six-day halt in military and police action in Kosovo "against the terrorist organization" (the Kosovo Liberation Army). Milosevic claimed to be ready to work with moderate ethnic Albanian leader Ibrahim Rugova -- once NATO's preferred negotiating partner -- toward a settlement allowing for the return of refugees with the assistance of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and the Red Cross. A temporary self-government agreement for each of Kosovo's communities would form the basis...
...NATO dismissed the Serb offer as a nonstarter and kept on bombing. But the alliance also reiterated its own terms for a settlement: An end to the Serb offensive in Kosovo A withdrawal of Serb military, paramilitary and police units from the region The safe return of the refugees The presence of an international protection force to guarantee their security Autonomy for Kosovo within Serbia, along the lines envisaged at Rambouillet...
...even NATO's rejection of the Serb offer contained a concession -- the idea that the army protecting returning refugees would be an "international" rather than a NATO force. This allowed for Russian involvement, and opened up the issue of the composition of the Kosovo peacekeeping force -- which was not on the table at Rambouillet -- for negotiation...
...several weeks now, the national media has lambasted the current generation of college students for their relative lack of concern for the events in Kosovo...