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.
The document calls for amnesty for the people related to the events in several districts of Donetsk and Luhansk.
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.
Heavy Artillery Withdrawal in Donbas Should Be Completed Within Two Weeks - UPDATED
12 February 2015
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