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the Helsinki Final Act‘. 107
Boshkovich 44
The entire agreement (Appendix III) which was signed only by Albanians was
eighty two pages long (―…they [Albanians] officially signed the eighty-two-page
agreement in a five-minute ceremony boycotted both the Yugoslav delegation and the
Russian negotiator.‖) 108 , and the Serbs had a huge number of complaints which most of
the time were not accepted. However, the agreement discussion will follow after
description of the delegations, which had actually never met in Rambouillet, except when
they would see each other by accident in the hallways. The reason for this was host‘s
decision to implement shuttle diplomacy rather than direct negotiations which Yugoslav
delegation favored. 109
The negotiators
Serbian delegation
The Serbian delegation in Rambouillet was represented by five high-ranking allies
of Milosevic in addition to representatives of other ethnic groups from Kosovo. The
107 The State Department Online, http://www.state.gov/www/regions/eur/fs_990301_rambouillet.html
108 Madeleine Albright, Madam Secretary: A Memoir (New York: Easton Press, 2003), 405.
109 Tim Judah, Kosovo: War and Revenge (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000), 203.