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POROSHENKO’S PLAN
- “Security guarantees for all participants of the talks”;
- “Relief from criminal responsibility for those who laid down arms and did not commit grievous crimes”;
- “Liberation of hostages”;
- “Creation of a 10 km buffer area on the Russian-Ukrainian state border. Withdrawal of illegal paramilitary groups”;
- “Creation of a guaranteed corridor for the withdrawal of Russian and Ukrainian mercenaries”;
- “Disarmament (not specified on which side it spreads)”;
- “Setting up of units within the Interior Ministry for carrying out joint patrolling”;
- “Liberation of illegally captured administrative buildings in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions”;
- “Resuming of activities of local authorities”;
- “Renewal of central television and radio broadcasting in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions”;
- The document also includes steps for “decentralization of power (by electing executive committees, as well as the protection of the Russian language, and draft bill on amendments to the Constitution);
- The plan envisages “the approval of the governors’ candidacies with Donbass representatives before the elections”. However, the document specifies that this clause will be observed only in case there is a joint candidacy. In case there are differences in candidacies, the president keeps the last word.
- The plan concedes holding “snap local and parliamentary elections” in Ukraine.
- The president pledges to develop “a program of creating jobs” in Ukraine’s east;
- The country’s leader plans to engage in “restoring industrial and social infrastructure facilities” that were damaged during the crisis in Ukraine.
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