The parties undertake:

1. To ensure there is an immediate bilateral ceasefire.

2. To ensure the monitoring and verification of the regime of ceasefire by the OSCE.

3. To conduct the decentralization of power, including through the adoption of the law of Ukraine on the temporary regulations for local government in individual districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (the law on the special status).

4. To ensure permanent monitoring of the Ukrainian-Russian state border and its verification by the OSCE with the formation of a security zone in the border areas of Ukraine and the Russian Federation.

5. To release immediately all hostages and illegally held people.

6. To adopt a law prohibiting the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that have taken place in some districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions of Ukraine.

7. To continue an inclusive national dialogue.

8. To take steps to improve the humanitarian situation in Donbas.

9. To ensure the conduct of the early local elections in compliance with the law of Ukraine on the temporary regulations for local government in individual districts of Donetsk and Luhansk regions (the law on the special status).

10. To withdraw the illegal armed groups, military equipment, as well as militants and mercenaries from the territory of Ukraine.

11. To adopt a program of economic revival for Donbas and restoration of living conditions and economic activities there.

12. To provide guarantees of personal security for the participants of the consultations.

In this regards, on September 10, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, explaining a peace plan, said that more autonomy would be provided to eastern regions of the country. The regions would remain part of Ukraine, and not become a federalized and distinct state, as some separatists demand. It is the first time President Poroshenko elaborated on what Ukraine was willing to cede to the pro-Russian separatists in the east, in a ceasefire agreement signed Friday after Ukrainian troops suffered heavy losses in fighting.

As Ukrainian President said, Parliament of Ukraine will receive a draft bill next week that explains a special status for the rebel-held areas, and elections could be held to choose local leaders.

Embassy of Ukraine to the Hellenic Republic