Not long ago, the Clintonites thought they could leave Kosovo diplomacy to their European partners, who led the peace talks at Rambouillet.

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Nobody is quite sure how much relevance the Rambouillet deal still has.

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He became known outside Kosovo when he formed part of the Kosovar Albanian negotiating team at internationally-sponsored peace talks at Rambouillet, France, early in 1999.

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Hypocritical perhaps, but the moral imperative not to let Mr Milosevic's brutality stand was a more convincing casus belli than Serbia's mere refusal to sign up at Rambouillet.

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Russia was part of the six-nation Contact Group -- along with the United States, France, Britain, Germany and Italy -- that negotiated a peace agreement for Kosovo in Rambouillet, France, in February.

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Harder for the Germans to take was their treatment by the British and French over the Rambouillet conference, which began work in February to try to find a political solution for Kosovo.

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Eutelsat is partnering with ATEME, a video compression solution provider to the broadcast industry, for the transmissions that will be uplinked to the EUTELSAT 10A satellite from its teleport in Rambouillet, near Paris.

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He met with Milosevic in eleventh-hour negotiations last week on the Rambouillet peace proposal, but he failed to get the Yugoslav leader to sign on -- even after he made clear NATO would begin its bombing campaign.

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At Rambouillet, western negotiators found him indecisive.

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