From a political standpoint , as a member of the Contact Group , France has played a key role in the negotiations on Kosovo 's status and , within the European Union , to reach a consensus on the deployment of the EULEX mission . Mr. Bernard Kouchner has been very involved in the search for an agreement , relaying the actions of the French President , who had proposed during the G8 summit in July 2008 designating the troika tasked with restarting a final phase of negotiations between Belgrade and Pristina in August 2007 . In particular , the minister went to the two parties in July 2007 , before receiving his Serbian counterpart and the Kosovan negotiation team ( President , Prime Minister and heads of the main parties ) in Paris in November , to encourage them to compromise
summit in July 2008
34th G8 summit
France–Kosovo relations