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To: goldsnow who wrote (6899)	5/5/1999 9:44:00 PM
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NEWS : The fix is in. BREAKING: NATO, Russia OK peace formula (MSNBC) MSNBC/Wire Reports 5/5/99 BRUSSELS, Belgium, May 5 — NATO leaders have reached agreement with Russia on a postwar plan for Kosovo that would leave the region under Yugoslav rule but grant it autonomy from Serbia and maintain the peace with a force of 60,000 international troops, NBC News learned Wednesday. The plan, to be presented by Russia to Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic, would include a strong NATO presence in the peacekeeping force and is contingent on Yugoslavia withdrawing the bulk of its forces from Kosovo. YUGOSLAVIA ALREADY has rejected many aspects of the plan, outlined to NBC by senior U.S. officials, diplomats and military sources. However, a senior U.S. official said Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin has pledged to present the plan as a “good deal” to Milosevic. Officials stressed that while NATO and Russia have agreed on what would happen after hostilities have ceased, there was no guarantee Yugoslavia would agree to them or that a deal on the withdrawal of Yugoslav forces from Kosovo — the prerequisite to the plan — can be cut. Nonetheless, U.S. officials portrayed the talks with the Russians as promising. President Bill Clinton told NBC's Tom Brokaw on Air Force One that he was encouraged at the progress being made by Russia's mediators. “If the Russians get to the point where they can argue (the NATO position) to the Serbs, then I think that will be very helpful,” he said. Among the highlights of the plan: A heavily armed international peacekeeping force for Kosovo that includes NATO nations. Autonomy and self-government for Kosovo within Yugoslavia, but not independence. Armed escorts for refugees who wish to return to their villages in Kosovo. Disarming the Kosovo Liberation Army guerrillas and transforming them into a civilian peace force. WAR GOES ON Mindful that diplomacy still has some way to go, Clinton, on a visit to Germany, vowed Wednesday to continue the air war until NATO's demands are met. “We will continue to pursue this campaign in which we are now engaged. We will intensify it in an unrelenting way until these objectives are met,” he told several thousand servicemen and their families gathered in an aircraft hangar at Spangdahlem Air Base.