Questions interesting only part of the represented powers may be discussed separately.
Official reports of the proceedings will be drafted jointly.
At the President's invitation the Russian delegates now presented, in a long speech, the basic proposals for peace terms, already familiar in the forms of the various resolutions passed by the Workmen's and Soldiers' Delegates.
The Russian demands comprised fifteen paragraphs, or points, as follows:
1. Evacuation of all Russian territory now occupied by Germany, with autonomy for Poland and the Lithuanian and Lettish provinces.
2. Autonomy for Turkish Armenia.
3. Settlement of the Alsace-Lorraine problem by a free plebiscite.
4. The restoration of Belgium and indemnity through an international fund for damages.
5. Restoration of Serbia and Montenegro with a similar indemnity, Serbia gaining access to the Adriatic. Complete autonomy for Bosnia and Herzegovina.
6. Other contested Balkan territory to be temporarily autonomous pending plebiscites.