MOSCOW, June 3 (Itar-Tass) -- Russia's Balkans envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin an the delegation he led to the last, 20-minute meeting with Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic on Thursday, left Belgrade for Moscow at 16.00 Moscow time (noon GMT).

Chernomyrdin's aide Valentin Sergeyev told Itar-Tass by telephone from Belgrade, that during the final meeting between Russia's and E.U.'s envoys with President Milosevic "some details of the fulfilment of the already approved plan for the settlement in Kosovo were specified."

Viktor Chernomyrdin, who was earlier quoted by his aide as saying that "the day and hour of the arrival of the officers of the North Atlantic Alliance in Belgrade under the U.N. aegis will become the day and hour of the termination of pointless bloodshed in Yugoslavia", stressed in the course of the meeting with Milosevic that "the Russian delegation has been acting and continues to act in keeping with the instructions issued by the president and government of Russia."

The meeting with the president of Yugoslavia was attended by high-ranking Yugoslav officers as the head of the Russian defence ministry's Main Administration of International Military Cooperation Leonid Ivashov and Russia's military representative in NATO Viktor Zavarzin.

Before leaving Belgrade, Chernomyrdin reached U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott by telephone to "insistently propose sending to Belgrade in the next few days a group of NATO officers under the U.N. Security Council aegis, as agreed with Slobodan Milosevic, to fulfil jointly with Russian and Yugoslav military the already approved plan for Kosovo. The plan's priority aim is to withdraw armed formations from Kosovo, bring the refugees and displaced persons back there and secure their safety.

Chernomyrdin's aide Valentin Sergeyev said it was in his conversation with Talbott that Chernomyrdin stressed that "the day and hour of the arrival of the officers of the North Atlantic Alliance in Belgrade under the U.N. aegis will become the day and hour of the termination of pointless bloodshed in Yugoslavia"

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16:53, 03 june 1999