AGREEMENT OF THE STATE PARTIES OF COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

of March 6, 1998

About cooperation of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States in fight against illegal migration

The State Parties of this agreement on behalf of the governments, further - the Parties,

based on rules of international law and national legal system of the Parties,

noting that illegal migration, posing threat of public and homeland security, economic stability, promoting complication of criminogenic situation in the territories of the Parties,

considering priority for itself task of providing the rights and legitimate interests of the citizens,

considering cooperation in fight against illegal migration as one of the important directions of regulation of migratory processes in the territories of the Parties and for the purpose of implementation of joint efforts to prevention of illegal migration,

aiming to provide the legal basis for cooperation of the Parties in fight against illegal migration, agreed as follows:

Article 1

The terms applied in this agreement have the following values:

"illegal migrants" - the citizens of the third states and stateless persons which violated rules of entrance, departure, stay or transit through the territories of the Parties and also the citizens of the Parties who violated the rules of stay in the territory of one of the Parties established by its national legal system;

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

"the state of departure" - the state of civil accessory of the illegal migrant (for stateless persons - the state of its regular residence) or the state from which territory there arrived illegal migrant;

"the state of entrance" - the state to which territory there arrived illegal migrant.

Article 2

The agreement is not applied to persons which arrived to the territory of one of the Parties for the purpose of asylum or the status of the refugee if their petitions for the provision of such status are submitted to relevant organs of the state of entrance according to the procedure provided by its legislation.

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