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implementation of the entire agreement. As part of that, this mission would be in charge
of the creation of ―community police‖ to include the decision on the number of police
officers. Other than that, it was requested that all federal and republic police institutions
for training in Kosovo ceased to exist. Serbian Police would retreat from Kosovo in few
phases, and while doing that it would be supervised by the Implementation Mission.
These and some other acts from this Chapter were of course unacceptable for the Serbs
because they meant almost total cancelation of sovereignty of Yugoslavia and Serbia on
the territory of Kosovo. The only representatives of the Serbian Government would be on
border crossings with Albania and Macedonia, but there would not be more than 50 of
them. It is important to mention that there is not such autonomy anywhere else, not even
close.
Another last minute surprise was Chapter 5 titled ―Implementation I‖. It was
nothing less unacceptable than Chapter 4. The purpose of this Chapter was to transform
the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) mission to the real
civilian authority in Kosovo, which would be led by the chief of the Implementation
Mission (officially he would be the chief of the mutual commission, but his decisions
would be final). Based on this Chapter, this chief (protected by Vienna Convection as any
other member of diplomatic missions) would be the supreme law in Kosovo. It is
probably unnecessary to mention that the Serbian delegation could not accept this
Chapter as well. If anything, negotiators should request that this mission works on those
parts of Kosovo where the Serbian Government did not have authority (areas where
ethnic Albanians are in majority), or something similar to that. It is impossible that the
world finest diplomats could not come to a better solution than that in several weeks, of