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.

CNN: marines

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.

ECONOMIST: A war too far for Milosevic

Their return may depend on the American government acting on its promise to pay for the return of Serb refugees to Kosovo in safety.

ECONOMIST: Montenegro and Kosovo