Source: http://www.inet.co.yu/war/info/tekst03-06-1-e.html
Accessed 03 June 1999
BELGRADE, May 3rd - The Serbian Parliament
has adopted a "document for peaceful settlement" brought to Belgrade by
international mediators, Finnish President Maarti Ahtisaari and Viktor Chernomyrdin,
special envoy of the Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
We are delivering the integral text of the document distributed to the Parliament members:
"In order to embark upon the solution to the crisis, a treaty on the following
principles should be reached:
1. Immediate and viable halt of the violence and repression in Kosovo.
2. Viable withdrawal from Kosovo of all military, police, and paramilitary forces
according a quick time schedule.
3. The deployment of efficient international
civilian and security presences in Kosovo, under the auspices of the UN, acting pursuant
to the Chapter 7 of the UN Chart, capable of guaranteeing the fulfilment of the common
objectives.
4. The international security presence, along with the substantial involvement of NATO,
has to be deployed under an allied command and control, and authorized to establish a safe
surroundings to all the Kosovar population, and to safeguard the return of all the
displaced persons and refugees to their homes.
5. The establishment of a provisional administration for Kosovo, as part of the
international civilian presence, upon which the UN Security Council will decide, under
which the Kosovar people will be able to enjoy substantial autonomy within the FRY. The
provisional administartion provides provisional government, while developing the
conditions necessary to peaceful and normal life of all the Kosovar population.
6. After the withdrawal, an agreed number of Yugoslav and Serbian personell will be
allowed to return in order to perform the following duties:
- the connection with the international civilian mission and international security
presence,
- marking and sweeping of minefields,
- the maintenance of presence in the places of Serbian heritage,
- the maintenance of presence at the key border
passes.
7. Safe and free return of all the refugees and
displaced persons monitored by the UNHCR and an unrestrained access to Kosovo for all
humanitarian organizations.
8. Political process directed towards a provisional political framework agreement
envisaging a substantial self-government to Kosovo, with a full observation of the
Rambouillet agreement and the principles of sovereignity and territorial integrity of the
FRY and other region states, as well as the demilitarization of the KLA. The negotiations
between the parties on the settlement should not delay or curtail the establishment of
democratic self-governmental institutions.
9. A comprehensive approach to economic development and stabilization of the crisis-hit
region. This entails the implementation of the South-East Europe Stability Pact, with a
massive participation for further democracy promotion, ecomonic prosperity, stability, and
regional cooperation.
10. The halt of military operations will require
the acceptance of the above presented principles, with the simultaneous accordance with
the previously identified elements determined in the footnote.
Subsequently, a quick military and technical agreement will be reached, specifying the
additional modalities, including the role and functions of the Yugoslav/Serbian personell
in Kosovo.
The withdrawal
- The course of withdrawal, including the phasing, gradual time schedule, as well as
marking the buffer zone in Serbia, behind which the forces are going to withdraw.
The returning personell
- the equipment for the returning personell
- the scope of their functional responsibilities
- time schedule of their return
- defining the geographic zones of their operations
- the regulations determining their relations to
the international security presence and international civilian mission. The text has the
following footnote enclosed:
Other provisional elements:
- An accelerated and accurate time schedule of withdrawal which means, for instance, seven
days to end the withdrawal, pulling the AD weaponry out of the mutual security zone of 25
kilometres, within 48 hours.
- The personell return in order to perform the four above stated functions will be
conducted along with a synchronized international security presence and limited to a small
number of people (expressed in hundreds, not thousands).
- The suspension of all military operations will be enacted after the withdrawal
commences, which can be checked.
- The discussion on military and technuical agreement and its reaching will not prolong
the previously determined withdrawal deadline. |