23 years since the historic London Contact Group statement
The Reçak massacre eventually ruled out the possibility of a peace agreement in direct Albanian-Serbian talks, as had been proposed for several years. After this massacre, the diplomatic activity increased in the relation Washington-NATO-Brussels-Contact Group, where everyone had agreed that the idea of organizing a conference should have priority over the policy of ultimatums.
On January 29, 1999, the Contact Group, met in London at Lancaster House, near St James's Royal Palace, and issued the historic statement for holding the Rambouillet Conference, and adopted the non-negotiable principles on which the Transitional Agreement for Kosovo was to be built...
