Belgrade, September 16 (Tanjug) - A Yugoslav delegation, headed by Kosovo-Metohija coordination centre President Nebojsa Covic, will take part in the UN Security Council session in New York on Monday and present a programme for the settlement of the Kosovo problem.

The programme represents an exhaustive analysis of the situation in Kosovo-Metohija, as a basis for Yugoslavia to open a new initiative in the United Nations, aimed at improving the situation and providing a comprehensive settlement to the problem in Serbia's southern province.

The programme consists of four chapters, starting with problems and consequences, through initial positions explaining the necessity for resolving the problems and identification of goals and principles of problem solving, and concluding with the basic tasks involved in the process.

Concerning problems and consequences, the document states that the crisis in Kosovo-Metohija continues despite all measures taken by the international community, Yugoslavia and Serbia. A safe environment for all citizens has not been established, the military role of the former KLA and other armed ethnic Albanian groups has not ceased, Serbs have continued to move out and a safe and secure return of Serb IDPs has not been ensured. The agreed numbers of Yugoslav Army and Serbian police are still not allowed to return to Kosovo-Metohija and adequate participation of Yugoslavia and Serbia in the implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 has not been seen.

In view of these indisputable facts and starting with its national and state interest and international support to the country's sovereignty and territorial integrity, Belgrade has constructed a programme aimed at settling the problems in Kosovo-Metohija, on the basis of which goals, principles and tasks in the further implementation of UN Security Council Resolution 1244 should be determined.

Yugoslavia therefore proposes that the basis for planning and resolving problems in Kosovo-Metohija includes the view that the problem of ethnic Albanian separatism represents a long-term factor of instability, for Yugoslavia as well as the entire region, that present problems represent a "silent continuation" of the crisis based on the idea of a greater Albania. New democratic authorities in Yugoslavia and Serbia are fully committed and prepared to engage in constructive and efficient cooperation with the international community and all national communities in resolving all problems in Kosovo-Metohija.

According to the programme, the main goal in resolving problems in Kosovo-Metohija is to determine a strategy of joint participation by the international community, Yugoslavia and Serbia, ethnic Albanians and Serbs in a consistent implementation of Resolution 1244, aiming at Kosovo's reintegration in the Republic of Serbia and Yugoslavia.

Finally, starting with the determined problems, positions, goals and principles, the Yugoslav side proposes that the resolution of problems in Kosovo-Metohija include a series of measures and activities to be carried out in three phases:

-Phase 1 (until November 2001) aimed at undertaking urgent confidence building measures.

-Phase 2 of essential inclusion of the sides in the resolution of problems (between December 2001 and late March 2002), and

-Phase 3 of joint work on the resolution of problems (after March 2002).