Agreement on creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States

of December 8, 1991

We, the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation (RSFSR), Ukraine as the states - the founders of USSR who signed the Allied Agreement of 1922, further referred to as with High contracting parties state that USSR as the subject of international law and geopolitical reality stops the existence.

Based on historical community of our people and the bonds which developed between them, considering the bilateral agreements signed between High contracting parties

aiming to build democratic constitutional states,

intending to develop the relations on the basis of mutual recognition and respect of the state sovereignty, the inalienable right to self-determination, the principles of equality and non-interference to internal affairs, refusal of use of force, economic or any other methods of pressure, settlement of controversial problems conciliatory means, other conventional principles and rules of international law,

considering that further development and strengthening of the relations of friendship, neighborliness and mutually beneficial cooperation between our states are equitable to radical national interests of their people and serve cause of peace and safety,

I confirm the commitment to the purposes and the principles of Articles of organization of the United Nations, the Helsinki Final act and other documents of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe,

обязуясь to respect the universally international standards about human rights and the people,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

High contracting parties form the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Article 2

High contracting parties guarantee to the citizens irrespective of their nationality or other distinctions the equal rights and freedoms. Each of High contracting parties guarantees to citizens of other Parties, and also the persons without citizenship living in its territory irrespective of their national identity or other distinctions the civil, political, social, economic and cultural laws and freedoms according to the universally international standards about human rights.

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