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dipsydoodle

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Tue Sep 23, 2014, 04:16 AM Sep 2014

English-language translation of the Sept. 19 cease-fire memorandum in Minsk.

Memorandum

To fulfill point 1 of the protocol based on consultations of the trilateral contact group on joint steps towards implementation of the peace plan of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko and initiatives of Russian President Vladimir Putin (in Minsk, Belarus, on Sept. 5), participants of the trilateral contact group made up of representatives of Ukraine, Russian Federation and Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as representatives of certain districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts reached an understanding regarding the following measures called to seal the bilateral cease-fire agreement.

1. The cease-fire is to be considered mutual.

2. Subdivisions and military formations of the sides along are to stop in their juxtaposition as of Sept. 19.

3. There is a ban on the use of all types of weapons and any form of offensive action.

4. Within 24 hours after the approval of this memorandum, all lethal weapons more than 100 millimeter caliber are to be moved back from juxtaposition by at least 15 kilometers (with the exception of those indicated below), including from residential areas, which will allow to create a zone from from use of weapons of no less than 30 kilometers in width (the safety zone).

http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/english-language-translation-of-the-sept-5-cease-fire-memorandum-in-minsk-365460.html

That's the English version with all details.

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