The agreement on interaction of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States in case of evacuation of their citizens from the third countries in case of emergency situations

of April 12, 1996

The governments of the State Parties of this agreement (further - the Parties),

being guided by the Agreement on creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States of December 8, 1991,

proceeding from mutual interests of safety of citizens of the State Parties of the Agreement which are in the third countries in case of emergency situations,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the stated below terms have the following value:

"the third countries" - all states, not being participants of this agreement;

"adoptive state" - the state in the territory of which there are foreign institutions or certain citizens of the State Parties of this agreement;

"states" - the State Parties of this agreement;

"emergency situation" - situation in case of which owing to extreme aggravation of internal political situation or owing to armed conflicts with participation of adoptive state, natural disasters, epidemics, major accidents and catastrophic crashes in adoptive state or in the adjacent countries there is threat of life and to health of citizens of the State Parties of this agreement.

Article 2

For coordination of the actions in case of evacuation of citizens from the third countries in case of emergency situations of the Party create the Joint commission on evacuation (further - the Commission).

The commission performs the activities on the basis of the Provision which is integral part of this agreement.

The parties within a month after the signature of this agreement appoint the representatives in structure of the Commission.

The first commission session is held at the initiative of the Russian Federation in Interstate economic Committee of Economic union in 2-month time from the date of agreement signature.

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