Once the pullout is completed, "several hundred" Yugoslav troops would be allowed to return to Kosovo to protect religious shrines and border locations, CNN's Wolf Blitzer reported from Washington.
Mr Milosevic has been forced to agree to a deal that would return to Kosovo the self-rule it enjoyed from 1974 to 1989, when he himself brought that to an end.
Their return may depend on the American government acting on its promise to pay for the return of Serb refugees to Kosovo in safety.
"After discussing the worsening situation in Kosovo, Prime Minister Primakov decided to return to Moscow, " Gore said in a written statement.
Maj Packer, who has also served in Bosnia, Kosovo and Northern Ireland, is hoping to return to work later in the year.
The EU had given Serbia until Tuesday to relinquish its effective control over northern Kosovo in return for the start of EU membership talks.
The peacekeeping force will "establish a robust military presence that will provide a secure environment for the safe return of the refugees, both inside and outside Kosovo, to their homes, " Jackson said.
As the UN administration works on establishing standards of locally-run democratic governance and the rule of law, the last thing it wants is a return to the instability that was a hallmark of its first few years in Kosovo.
In Kosovo, too, much energy was devoted to helping the return of people displaced by war, even if they had to take the risk of coexisting with old foes.
The resolution was agreed on by leading democracies and Russia in Cologne, Germany, as a path to ending the 77-day-old Kosovo war and allowing the return of hundreds of thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees.
The U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday that more than 170, 000 Kosovo Albanians have left Albania and Macedonia in the last week to return to their homes -- which may or not still be there.
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That is, to persuade Mr Milosevic to sue for peace on terms acceptable to the West: a withdrawal of troops from Kosovo, an internationally policed return of refugees, and self-rule for the province.
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