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Rambouillet
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Rambouillet, town (1990 pop. 25,293), Yvelines dept., N France. It is a summer resort in the heart of a magnificent forest. Sheep are raised, and radio equipment and plastics are made. The nearby château (14th–18th cent.), set in a beautiful park, is the official summer residence of French presidents, and the vast forest is used for official hunting parties. A national farm there was established by Louis XVI.

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During talks in Rambouillet, France, in February, the Armenian and Azerbaijani leaders failed to agree to a resolution of the dispute.
In early 1999, during negotiations with the Serbian government of Slobodan Milosevic at Rambouillet, France, the Clinton administration (with London's support) presented the Serbs with an ultimatum, entitled "Appendix B," that would have permitted NATO troops to occupy Serbia in the supposed interest of ending ethnic conflict in Kosovo.
But in what Belgrade pointed to as a victory, the proposals accepted Thursday do not include a new examination of Kosovo's sovereignty after three years or any referendum on that topic, as did the draft proposals accepted in March in Rambouillet, France, by the Albanian side only.
 
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