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Minsk - A package of measures towards the implementation of the Minsk agreements signed at the Contact Group on Feb. 12 envisages the launch of a dialogue on the modalities of local elections in the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

The document compels the sides to begin dialogue on the modalities of local elections consistent with the Ukrainian legislation and the Ukrainian Law “On the Temporary Procedure of Local Self-Government in Certain Districts of the Donetsk and Luhansk Regions” and the future regime for these districts based on the aforementioned law on the first day after the withdrawal of heavy weapons.