Surroi recalls Rambouille: A climax, but it became a chance to take over the country day after day

Veton Surroi has recalled the 19th anniversary of the signing of the Rambouillet Agreement.

He says it was the first Western contract in Kosovo's history.

He says it was a climactic work of a people, turned into a chance to take over the country.

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19 years ago, for the first time in Kosovo's history, a contract with the West, a contract to free the country. A climactic work of a people turned into a chance to take days, days, year after year.

A Short History of Rambouille

Unlike February 6, 1999, the Watchtower and Awake! This meeting, which was held in the vicinity of Paris, France, aimed at resolving the Kosovo crisis.

The conference's initiative, which lasted until 23 February, was the Contact Group, while the mediator was Christopher Hill from the US, Boris Majossi, Russia and Volfgan Petric from the EU.

The Kosovo delegation had basically accepted the proposal for resolving the Kosovo crisis, which the Contact Group had proposed. The Serbian delegation, however basically accepted this proposal-agreement, defended the position that NATO troops would not be allowed to pass through Serbia and international forces in Kosovo to be within the United Nations.

The second round of talks that began on March 15th in Paris ended without success. The Kosovo and Serbian delegations had signed various agreements on 18 March. The Kosovo delegation had signed the agreement offered by international co-ordinators, while the Serbian delegation had signed the draft political agreement- agreement on self-rule in Kosovo.

The last attempt, on March 22, 1999, by US special envoy Richard Holbrooke, was not successful. He failed to convince then RSFJ President Slobodan Milosevic to accept the Kosovo agreement and the deployment of international troops.

On March 24, 1999, NATO began shelling Serbia's troops and paramilitary troops. The bombings ended on June 6, 1999, with the signing of the Kumanovo Agreement envisioning the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo and the deployment of peaceful international troops.

Later, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 1244, with which the protectorate, the international presence in Kosovo, was established, UNMIK as a civilian mission and KFOR military mission. On February 17, 2008, Kosovo declared independence