[PEN-L:7807] (Fwd) TEXT OF PEACE AGREEMENT

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The Associate Press                             Thursday, June 3, 1999

TEXT OF PEACE AGREEMENT

BELGRADE, Yugoslavia -- A copy of the Kosovo peace plan 
approved by the Serb parliament today, obtained by The Associated 
Press from parliamentary sources.

The text was in Serbian and translated by AP: 

"In order to move forward toward solving the Kosovo crisis, an 
agreement should be reached on the following principles:

1: Imminent and verifiable end to violence and repression of 
Kosovo.

2. Verifiable withdrawal from Kosovo of military, police and 
paramilitary forces according to a quick timetable.

3. Deployment in Kosovo, under U.N. auspicies, of efficient 
international civilian and security presences which would act as can 
be decided according to Chapter 7 of the U.N. Charter and be 
capable of guaranteeing fulfillment of joint goals.

4. International security presence, with an essential NATO 
participation, must be deployed under a unified control and 
command and authorized to secure safe environment for all the 
residents in Kosovo and enable the safe return of the displaced 
persons and refugees to their homes.

5. Establishment of an interim administration for Kosovo ...which 
the U.N. Security Council will decide and under which the people 
of Kosovo will enjoy substantial autonomy within the Federal 
Republic of Yugoslavia . The interim administration (will) secure 
transitional authority during the time (for the) interim democratic 
and self-governing institutions, (establish) conditions for peaceful 
and normal life of all citizens of Kosovo.

6. After the withdrawal, an agreed number of Serb personnel will be 
allowed to return to perform the following duties: liaison with the 
international civilian mission and international security presence, 
marking mine fields, maintaining a presence at places of Serb 
heritage, maintaining a presence at key border crossings.

7. Safe and free return of all refugees and the displaced under the 
supervision of UNHCR and undisturbed access for humanitarian 
organizations to Kosovo.

8. Political process directed at reaching interim political agreement 
which would secure essential autonomy for Kosovo, with full 
taking into consideration of the Rambouillet agreement, the 
principles of sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Federal 
Republic of Yugoslavia and other states in the region as well as 
demilitarization of the Kosovo Liberation Army. The talks between 
the sides about the solution should not delay or disrupt 
establishment of the democratic self-governning institutions.

9. General approach to the economic development of the crisis 
region. That would include carrying out a pact of stability for 
southeastern Europe, wide international participation in order to 
advance democracy and economic prosperity, and stability and 
regional cooperation.

10. The end of military activities will depend on acceptance of the 
listed principles and simultaneous agreement with other previously 
identified elements which are identified in the footnote below. Then 
a military-technical agreement will be agreed which will among 
other things specify additional modalities, including the role and 
function of the Yugoslav, i.e. Serb, personnel in Kosovo.

11. The process of withdrawal includes a phased, detailed timetable 
and the marking of a buffer zone in Serbia behind which the troops 
will withdraw.

12. The returning personnel: The equipment of the returning 
personnel, the range of their functional responsibilities, the 
timetable for their return, determination of the geographic zones of 
their activity, the rules guiding their relations with the international 
security presence and the international civilian mission.

Footnote. Other required elements: Fast and precise timetable for 
the withdrawal which means for instance: seven days to end the 
withdrawal; pulling out of weapons of air defense from the zone of 
the mutual security of 25 kilometers within 48 hours; return of the 
personnel to fullfill the four duties will be carried out under the 
supervision of the international security presence and will be limited 
to a small agreed number -- hundreds,not thousands.

Suspension of military actions will happen after the beginning of the 
withdrawal which can be verified. Discussion about the military-
technical agreement and its reaching will not prolong the agreed 
period for the withdrawal.''