Roli i Politikës Gjermane në Konferencën e Paqes në Rambuje
The role of German policy in the Rambouillet Peace Conference

Summary/Abstract: The German Federal Government supported uprightly the US position in this conference, but demanded the diplomacy of force to be truly tied to the political initiatives in an international conference. The result of these diplomatic efforts was also the Peace Conference in Rambouillet, in which Albanians of Kosovo and Serbia should find a solution for Kosovo’s autonomy in a transitional period. The role of German Foreign Policy of peace negotiations in Rambouillet from February 6 to February 23, 1999, and from March 15 to March 23, 1999 in Paris was too significant for the efforts of the Contact Group, EU and USA for reaching a political solution to the issue of transitional status of Kosovo. In this context, German diplomacy at this conference set the tone to maintaining cohesion too among partners involved in Rambouillet, which was the last attempt to reach a political deal between the delegation of Kosovo Albanians and the Serbian delegation. Shcröder-Fischer Federal Government saw this conference as the last opportunity to avoid the military intervention of NATO. Being the next EU’s presiding leader and also the leader of G-8, Germany made its best efforts to exploit exhaustively all means and possibilities to avoid the military option of NATO against military targets and repressive forces of remained Yugoslavia, even though the Russian authorities have warned to use the right of veto in the UN Security Council as a response toward any military option. The Federal Government coalition of left right-green coalition, through the Special Representative of the EU for Kosovo, Ambassador Wolfgang Petristch, and its diplomats, tried maximally*to move out both sides of their stances that were diametrically opposite. Its role was crucial, although some authors have tried to outline the role of Bonn as peripheral. Once that conference was finally failed on March 18, 1999, Germany participated in the military operation of NATO in the framework of Operation Allied Force, which began in the eve of March 24, 1999. In fact, Germany, since the outbreak of war in Kosovo in the spring of 1998 played an active security policy for long-term stabilization of the region and through diplomatic initiatives gave decisive impulses of its commitment in the field of foreign policy and security of the EU.

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