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Obvious suspect is Era who has a history of such things. I was responding to a post when it was deleted.
Laberia stated the Kosovo government accepted the Rambouillet proposal while Milosevic didn't as if this is proof Milosevic's offer of autonomy wasn't offered? (Hard to tell if that's his position since he wasn't specific beyond saying it was nonsense.
This was the proposal at Rambouillet:
Laberia's reasoning is if Milosevic was willing to give Kosovo autonomy he would have accepted the proposal but no government would have accepted the conditions placed by NATO. Even Kissinger saw the obvious. Milosevic was willing to offer autonomy but not the conditions offered by NATO. Milosevic's big beef with NATO was he didn't want them setting up shop in his country. He had rejected them before. That's understandable. You don't have real control of your nation if you have a large foreign army in your borders that is not subject to your laws.In the end, on 18 March 1999, the Albanian, American and British delegation signed what became known as the 'Rambouillet Accords'[3] while the Serbian and Russian delegations refused. The accords called for NATO administration of Kosovo as an autonomous province within Yugoslavia; a force of 30,000 NATO troops to maintain order in Kosovo; an unhindered right of passage for NATO troops on Yugoslav territory, including Kosovo; and immunity for NATO and its agents to Yugoslav law. According to Tim Judah, the Serbian side used Annex B only later on as a reason for the failure of talks; at the time, the Serbs rejected any discussion of the involvement of foreign troops, let alone the extensive rights that would have been afforded them by Annex B.[4]
In commentary released to the press, former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger declared that:
The Rambouillet text, which called on Serbia to admit NATO troops throughout Yugoslavia, was a provocation, an excuse to start bombing. Rambouillet is not a document that an angelic Serb could have accepted. It was a terrible diplomatic document that should never have been presented in that form.[5]
— Henry Kissinger, Daily Telegraph, 28 June 1999
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rambouillet_Agreement
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