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Heavy Artillery Withdrawal in Donbas Should Be Completed Within Two Weeks Sputnik, in Minsk, 12 February 2015 Heavy artillery withdrawal in Donbas is set to start soon and will be completed within 14 days, the Minsk document reads. According to the deal, all foreign armed groups, military equipment and mercenaries should leave Ukraine under the OSCE control. Moreover, the Minsk document calls for disarming all illegal groups in Ukraine. Constitutional reform in Ukraine must be completed by the end of 2015, the document reads. Decentralization issue should be reconsidered as well. The Minsk deal calls for legislation on the special status of the southeastern regions of Donetsk and Luhansk. Ukrainian parliament, Verkhovna Rada, must pass a bill on the special status of Donbas within 30 days, the document reads adding that the operation of the banking system in the region will be restored. 'All-for-all' prisoner exchange between Kiev and eastern Ukrainian forces should take place within five days following troops' pull back. Participants of the Normandy format meeting - Russian President Vladimir Putin, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel - have been holding talks for more than 13 hours in the Belarusian capital of Minsk to hammer out a deal on the Ukrainian crisis. Members of the Contact Group, comprising envoys from Kiev, Moscow, the Luhansk and Donetsk people's republics, as well as the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) have also been negotiating in Minsk since Tuesday. From: http://sputniknews.com/politics/20150212/1018155443.html -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
