Rambouillet Agreement
The Rambouillet Agreement, formally the Interim Agreement for Peace and Self-Government in Kosovo, was a proposed peace agreement between the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and a delegation representing the ethnic Albanian majority population of Kosovo. It was drafted by the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) and named for the Château de Rambouillet, where it was initially proposed in early 1999. The significance of the ultimatum lies in the fact that it was impossible for Yugoslavia to complete the ultimatum, which NATO used as justification to start its intervention in the Kosovo War. Belgrade's rejection was based on the argument that the ultimatum contained provisions for Kosovo's autonomy that went further than the Serbian and Yugoslav governments saw as reasonable.