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PRISHTINA, Oct 14 (KIC) - The deployment of a 2000 person OSCE verification mission to Kosova was hailed as the crowning success of the Holbrooke-Milosevic's marathonic talks which concluded Tuesday in Belgrade.

The Kosova Information Center (KIC) obtained Wednesday a copy of the draft agreement for OSCE Kosovo Verification Mission, which will reportedly be signed in a couple of days' time by Bronislaw Geremek, the Chairman in Office of the OSCE, and Zivadin Jovanovic, the Foreign Minister of the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia", the country that has not yet been admitted in the OSCE.

The five-page draft agreement sets down the mandate for the Mission which will last for one year, with possible extensions, "upon the request of either the OSCE Chairman-in-Office or the FRY government'.

The regrettable thing about the draft document is that the mainstream Kosovar authorities, namely the structures of the majority Albanian population, do not figure as a party in communications, let alone as a signatory.

Key propositions in the draft agreement, including "Preambular Language", have been couched in typical Serb regime terminology on Kosova.

"Considering in particular the importance of reaching a peaceful, democratic, and lasting solution of all existing problems in the Province of Kosovo and Metohija, based on the equality of all citizens and national and ethnic communities", reads paragraph 2 of the Preambular Language. The matter and the manner in this is Serbian: "existing problems", "the Province of Kosovo and Metohija" are two phrases notoriously conveying the Serb vision of Kosova. There is no Kosova question as such, but 'existing problems", the Serb argument goes, as well as the Serb claim over Kosova which is embodied in its Serbianized name: Kosovo and Metohija (Kosmet).

The concluding "Field Presence" gives away the Serb texture of the draft agreement. The territorial division known in English as the 'municipality' or 'commune' (in Albanian 'komunë'; in Serbian 'opstina') is referred to in the document in plain Serbian 'opstina', and is emphasized in cursive, as if it was a word that is so singular that it is untranslatable!

Following are excerpts of this part of the OSCE Kosova Verification Mission, which indicate that the Mission will maintain a liaison relationship with the (Serbian) authorities in 'opstinas' and "the local leadership of the Albanian and other communities".

"Coordination centers will be established in the capital of each opstina in Kosovo with specific areas of responsibility, under Mission Director located in Pristina. Many opstina coordination centers will have one or more sub-stations in smaller towns/villages in the opstina. The number and location of sub-stations will vary from opstina to opstina, depending on the verification environment and past conflict situation", one paragraph reads. Sub-stations will be responsible for coordination with "local authorities, including the local leadership of the main ethnic groups", the paper goes on to say, further degrading the stature and status of the 90 plus percent population of Kosova in the draft agreement.

The draft agreement on the OSCE Mission is supposed to be concerned with Kosova, which has not been designed to be included amongst the signatories. Kosova is not a recognized nation, the argument goes perhaps. Nor it is the "Federal Republic of Yugoslavia" as such, for that matter.