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June 10, 1999
Web posted at: 4:00 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT)

UNITED NATIONS (CNN) -- Despite reservations from China, the U.N. Security Council prepared to adopt a Kosovo resolution that one envoy called the "most complicated peace implementation ever undertaken" by the United Nations.

Security Council members were told to stand by for a meeting early Thursday morning to adopt a resolution allowing NATO peacekeepers into Kosovo.

The council is awaiting a faxed letter from NATO to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan confirming that the alliance has halted its military campaign against Yugoslavia.

Once that happens, the ambassadors would likely hold closed consultations before moving to a formal, open meeting with speeches and a vote.

"What will be mandated by the Security Council I hope very, very shortly is going to be the most challenging and the most complicated peace implementation ever undertaken, certainly by the U.N. system," said U.N. Balkans envoy Carl Bildt.

The foreign ministers of the G-7 industrial nations and Russia drafted the U.N. Security Council resolution on Tuesday.

It would bring NATO's bombing campaign to an end, provide for an international peacekeeping force in Kosovo and implement a political settlement that grants Kosovo Albanians self- government within the Yugoslav republic.

Despite the planned vote, many Security Council members are considering an amendment from China to curtail future NATO military action in Kosovo.

"If they reject our amendments, I think it is very difficult for us to accept this resolution," said China's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Shen Guofang.

"It is still early to say whether we are going to veto," he added.

Even though the resolution is in its final form, it can be changed to meet China's demands.

"The subject of some of the Chinese proposals is still under discussion," said deputy U.S. ambassador Peter Burleigh.

The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.

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