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.

Document compiled by Dr S D Stein
Last update 03/06/99
Stuart.Stein@uwe.ac.uk
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