The first round of Rambouillet talks on  Kosovo had failed,  but had been useful for  Serbia and the Serbian  people, because they had completely unmasked the U.S. policy. 

It had been demonstrated to the whole world that the United States' chief goal was not to reach a democratic settlement for Serbia's troubled province, but to deploy  NATO troops to Serbian territory. 

It has been shown that the Yugoslav republic of 
Serbia is constructive in its approach, that our state delegation wants to negotiate, while the envoys of the ethnic Albanian political parties and terrorist organization systematically avoided all contacts that might result in talks. 

The Americans themselves made nonsense of the 
negotiation process, and the United  States is now trying to hide its defeat from the American people. 

If nothing has been signed, then nothing has been 
achieved. Yugoslav state delegation had wanted to sign all that had been agreed in principle, but  the  Americans and their  protégés had not wanted this. 
 
The failure of the U.S. policy had brought a 
respite, and we are warning that the United States and its allies could continue to think up new tricks and that their pressure and threats would intensify in an effort to take Kosovo away from the state of Serbia. 
 
Our state is willing to give the maximum rights to the ethnic minorities in the same way this matter was regulated in other civilized states. Serbia is 
not planning an offensive in Kosovo, but is determined to suppress  terrorism, and our  police would not give up on its regular duties.