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== Negotiating parties==

The negotiations were chaired by [[United Kingdom|British]] Foreign Secretary [[Robin Cook]] and [[France|French]] Foreign Minister [[Hubert Védrine]]. At times, US Secretary of State [[Madeleine Albright]] and German Foreign Minister [[Joschka Fischer]] also took part in the talks.

Three parties were involved in the negotiations:

*the Contact Group, which included representatives from the [[United States]], the [[European Union]] and [[Russia]]; [[Christopher R. Hill|Christopher Hill]] for the US, [[Wolfgang Petritsch]] for the EU and [[Boris Majorski]] for Russia).

*the 16-member delegation of Kosovo: [[Hashim Thaçi]] (leader of the [[Kosovo Liberation Army]]), [[Ibrahim Rugova]] (the leader of the ethnic Albanian community in Kosovo), philosophy professor and Rugova confidant [[Fehmi Agani]], journalist [[Veton Surroi]], [[Rexhep Qosja]], KLA spokesman [[Jakup Krasniqi]], former Rugova employee and KLA representative [[Ram Buja]], among others.<ref name="BBC-1999-02-06">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/273830.stm ''World: Europe Kosovo talks: The negotiators''] BBC, 6. Februar 1999.</ref>

*the delegation of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was initially led by Serbian Deputy Prime Minister [[Ratko Marković]] before  Serbian President [[Milan Milutinović]] took over the leadership when he joined the delegation at the beginning of the second week of negotiations, on 13 February. The delegation included Federal Deputy Prime Minister [[Nikola Šainović]], Federal Deputy Prime Minister [[Vladan Kutlešić]], Serbian Deputy Government Spokesman [[Vladimir Stambuk]], Chairman of the Socialist Party in Kosovo [[Vojislav Živković]], Member of the Kosovo and Methoja Provisional Executive Council [[Guljbehar Sabović]], the representative of the national Muslim community [[Refik Senadović]], the representative of the Turkish national community and the Turkish Democratic Party [[Zejnelabidin Kurejs]], representative of the national community of the Gorans [[Ibro Vait]], President of the Kosovo Democratic Initiative [[Faik Jasari]], President of the Democratic Reform Party of Albanians [[Sokolj Cuse]], the representative of the Roma national community [[Ljuan Koka]], the representative of the Egyptian national community [[Cerim Abazi]].<ref name="BBC-1999-02-06">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/273830.stm ''World: Europe Kosovo talks: The negotiators''] BBC, 6. Februar 1999.</ref>