PROTOCOL
On the results of consultations of the Trilateral Contact Group, in relation to mutual steps directed to implementation of the Peace Roadmap of Ukrainian President P. Poroshenko and the initiatives of Russian President V. Putin.The Trilateral Contact Group consisting of representatives of Ukraine, the Russian Federation and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, having considered and discussed proposals advanced by participants of consultations in Minsk of September 1, achieved understanding of the need to take the following steps:
1. Provide an immediate bilateral ceasefire.
2. Provide OSCE monitoring and verification of the ceasefire regime observance by the conflict sides.
3. Kiev authorities are to decentralise power, including the adoption of the Ukrainian law on temporary order of local self-government in separate districts of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions.
4. OSCE officials are to ensure the permanent monitoring and verification on the Ukrainian-Russian state border with creation of the security zone in border areas of Russia and Ukraine.
5. Immediate release of all hostages and illegally held persons.
6. Enact a law prohibiting the prosecution and punishment of persons in connection with the events that took place in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions of Ukraine.
7. Continue an inclusive nationwide dialogue.
8. Take measures for the improvement of the humanitarian situation in Donbass.
9. Ensure early local elections in accordance with the Law of Ukraine “Concerning the temporary status of local self-government in certain areas of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions” (Law on Special Status).
10 Withdraw illegal armed groups, military equipment, militants and mercenaries from Ukraine.
11. Adopt a program for Donbass' economic development and the restoration of vital activity of the region.
12. Provide personal security guarantees for the participants of the consultations.
Participants of the Trilateral Contact Group:
Heidi Tagliavini, the OSCE Ambassador
Leonid Kuchma, the second President in Ukraine
Mikhail Zurabov, the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine
Alexander Zakharchenko
Igor Plotnitsky