Today is a solemn day.
Robin Cook and myself have been asked by our American, Russian, German and Italian partners to inaugurate and co-chair the Rambouillet negotiations as well as to make ourselves available at all times. Yet, from now on the entire world looks to you. What is at stake is peace in Kosovo. For nearly a year now the international community, through the Contact Group, the United Nations Security council, the European Union, NATO and the OSCE, has striven to achieve a political settlement enabling Serbs and Kosovo Albanians to coexist. I pay tribute to the sense of duty of both parties - the authorities in Belgrade and the representatives of the Kosovo Albanians.