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June 3, 1999
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BELGRADE, Yugoslavia (CNN) -- Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has accepted the terms of an international peace plan for Kosovo, Finland's president told European officials Thursday.

Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari -- the European Union's envoy to Yugoslavia -- told EU leaders in Cologne, Germany, that Milosevic agreed to the peace plan, which Serbia's parliament voted to accept earlier in the day.

Ahtisaari is expected to report to EU heads of government Thursday evening after returning from talks in Belgrade with Milosevic and Russian envoy Viktor Chernomyrdin. Finnish diplomatic sources relayed word of Milosevic's acceptance to EU officials Thursday.

NATO officials expressed cautious optimism, but said air raids would continue until Yugoslavia begins to implement the peace plan, including the withdrawal of troops from Kosovo.

In Moscow, Russian officials said NATO military representatives could be going to Belgrade under U.N. auspices in a matter of days to begin implementing the agreement. Their arrival in Belgrade would bring an end to the 72-day NATO bombardment of Yugoslavia.

News of Milosevic's agreement came shortly after Serbia's parliament voted to accept the European, Russian and U.S.- backed proposal, which includes a full withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo and a "fundamental" role for NATO troops in a peacekeeping force there.

The vote followed more than two months of bombardment by NATO air forces aimed at forcing Milosevic -- now charged with war crimes by a U.N. tribunal -- to make peace in Kosovo, a province of Yugoslavia's dominant Serbian republic.

The plan includes an international security presence to ensure the safe return of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees and a troop withdrawal in Kosovo, where NATO says the Yugoslav army has carried out a campaign of repression against civilians.

The Serbian parliament adopted the proposal amid contentious debate, with delegates coming close to fistfights at some points.

On March 23, that body rejected NATO's peace formula for Kosovo, and the alliance began its military action the next day.

As Yugoslav leaders deliberated, there were no immediate reports of NATO strikes around Belgrade. But scattered bombing in other parts of Yugoslavia was reported overnight.

NATO members react cautiously

European and American officials reacted cautiously to the Serbian parliament vote.