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1917 (January, full-fledged participant of negotiations in
11) 1918 Brest-Lytovsk. On behalf of states of the
quarter union, duke Chernin (Austria-
Hungary) announced UPR to be a sovereign
state, the delegation of C.C. headed by V
Holubovych was the only representative of
Ukrainian people.
January, 9 (22) ІV Universal of C.C.:
1918 1) UPR is proclaimed independent, free and
sovereign state of Ukrainian people, which
strives to live in peace with all neighbours;
2) the supreme executive organ, the Council
of People’s Ministers, was to carry on peace
negotiations in Brest-Lytovsk independently
and conclude peace;
3) firm and resolute fight with Bolsheviks
was proclaimed;
4) it was underlined that the law concerning
land socialization and its transfer to working
people had been already developed with its
further consideration at the ІХ session of
C.C.; the land transfer itself was planned on
the beginning of spring field work;
5) The Council of People’s Ministers ordered
to start conversion of all factories from the
was to peace status, manufacturing necessary
production, establish state control over all
banks;
6) fight with unemployment was proclaimed;
7) all freedoms, proclaimed in the ІІІ
Universal, were recognized as valid, all
nations within UPR were given rights to
national and personal autonomy;

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