Provisional agreement on Council of heads of states and Council of Heads of Government of the Commonwealth of Independent States

of December 30, 1991

State Parties of this agreement.

Being guided by the purposes and the principles of the Agreement on creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States of December 8, 1991 and the protocol to the Agreement of December 21, 1991.

In view of desire of the states of the Commonwealth to perform joint activities through the general coordinating institutes of the Commonwealth. Recognizing necessary to found the relevant interstate and intergovernmental institutes capable to provide effective coordination for consecutive implementation of provisions of the mentioned Agreement and to promote development of equal and mutually beneficial cooperation.

Agreed as follows:

Article 1.

Council of heads of states is the supreme body in which at the level of heads of states all State Parties of the Commonwealth for discussion of the matters of principle connected with coordination of activities of the states of the Commonwealth in the field of their common interests are provided.

Council is authorized to discuss the questions provided by the Agreement on creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States and other documents in development of the specified Agreement including the legal succession problems which arose in connection with the termination of existence of USSR and abolition of allied structures.

Activities of Council of heads of states and Council of Heads of Government are performed on the basis of mutual recognition and respect of the state sovereignty and sovereign equality of gosudarstvuchastnik of the Agreement, the inalienable right to self-determination, the principles of equality and non-interference to internal affairs, refusal of use of force and threat of force, territorial integrity and inviolability of the existing borders, peaceful settlement of disputes, respect of human rights and freedoms, including the rights of ethnic minorities, fair accomplishment of obligations and other conventional principles and rules of international law.

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