Kiev officials and representatives of the two self-proclaimed republics in southeastern Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire, as the contact group met behind closed doors in Belarus.<\/p>\n
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has confirmed the ceasefire agreement on his Twitter account.<\/p>\n
The truce agreement comes into force starting 6 pm local time (15:00 GMT).<\/p>\n
The president has ordered to cease fire starting at the time stated in the protocol.<\/p>\n
\u201cI give the order to the chief of the General staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cease fire, starting from 18.00 [local time] on September 5,\u201d Poroshenko’s statement says.<\/p>\n
Poroshenko then called on both the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry and the OSCE to provide international monitoring of compliance with the bilateral ceasefire.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe must do everything possible and impossible to stop bloodshed and put an end to people\u2019s suffering,\u201d the president said in a statement posted on his official website.<\/p>\n
Poroshenko expressed hope that both sides would comply with the ceasefire agreement.<\/p>\n
The self-proclaimed Donetsk People\u2019s Republic earlier confirmed the ceasefire agreement on its official Twitter account.<\/p>\n
Both Donetsk and Lugansk have said they are ready to lay down arms starting from 15:00GMT.<\/p>\n
Representatives of the rebel forces have said they will obey the ceasefire if Kiev follows suit.<\/p>\n
\u201cMost of the points of the protocol correspond with our demands,\u201d Lugansk\u2019s leader Igor Plotnitsky said.<\/p>\n
\u201cHowever, the ceasefire does not mean a shift from our course of breaking away from Ukraine. This is a compulsory measure,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The OSCE\u2019s Heidi Tagliavini has welcomed the agreement saying \u201cit is good news.\u201d<\/p>\n
She has revealed that the protocol consists of 12 points, and \u201cthe ceasefire is the chief one.\u201d<\/p>\n
The participants in the talks will prepare another document – a memorandum on settling the situation in Ukraine, a Donetsk representative said.<\/p>\n
The two sides accompanied by representatives of Russia and the OSCE were meeting in the Belorussian capital, Minsk, in an attempt to end the bloodshed in eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n
In their recent phone call on September 3, the presidents of Russia and Ukraine, Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, showed a willingness to find an agreement to resolve the months-long conflict in the southeastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Following the conversation with his counterpart, President Putin laid out a seven-point plan that could help find a solution.<\/p>\n
Source: RT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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