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...went into [the Rambouillet negotiations] without enough patience, with de facto support for the KLA," Jackson said...
Albright is particularly defensive--she brings it up in conversation--about charges that her ill-fated peace conference in Rambouillet last February was a mistake. She threw herself into the conference personally, hiking up and down the French chateau's drafty stairs with proposals. But it ended in close to humiliation. She never forced Milosevic to attend personally, and the Serbs yielded little. The Kosovars were also initially recalcitrant. The U.S. and NATO found themselves committed to an unwieldy committee-directed bombing campaign with no good contingencies for using ground troops or coping with a brutal refugee crisis...
...Albright, standing aside in the face of atrocities was not an option. The Rambouillet meeting, she feels, was necessary to persuade the Europeans, who had never been comfortable aiding the Albanian Muslims, to use force to stop Serbia. By that criterion, Rambouillet succeeded: it enabled Albright to compel the Europeans (and her Washington colleagues...
...brought the Russians on board behind its demands, while the Russians can say they've won enough concessions from NATO to cut a deal acceptable to Milosevic," says TIME Central Europe reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. The key sticking point to a peace deal -- as at the Rambouillet talks in February -- has been the scope and nature of an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo, and Thursday's accord in Bonn is vague enough on that issue to be sold to both sides. Fudging the contentious issues, of course, allows the political momentum of the peace process to be locked in, ending...
...haunted by a terrible question: What happened to Kosovo's best and brightest, the doctors, diplomats and intellectuals who made up the province's leadership and who have been noticeably missing among the refugees? For example, Veton Surroi, the gruff and charismatic Kosovar delegate to the peace talks in Rambouillet, France, courageously returned to Kosovo days before the bombing began but has since disappeared...