desk, George Kenney, reported in May 1999 that a senior State Department official had briefed journalists off the record that "[we] deliberately set the bar higher than the Serbs could accept". For the Serbs, signing the Rambouillet agreement would actually have been signing away all Serbian sovereignty over Kosovo. It was not even a "take it or leave it" proposition, as Secretary of State Albright emphasized back in February 1999; rather, it was "sign it or get bombed." There were, in fact, no negotiations at all, and no sovereign, independent state would have signed the Rambouillet agreement. See also 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia Kumanovo Agreement Ahtisaari Plan References Bibliography Further reading External links Full text of Rambouillet Accords Beginning of discussion (May 14, 1999 to June 8, 1999, specifically) of Appendix B of the Rambouillet Treaty on H-Diplo, the academic diplomatic history forum Goldstone Report Minutes of the British inquiry in the Kosovo war The Rambouillet Accord: A Declaration of War Disguised as a Peace Agreement, By Richard Becker, Western Regional Co- of the International Action Center History of Kosovo 1999 in Serbia Kosovo War Kosovo peace process NATO treaties 1999 documents 1999 in France