The agreement on perpetuating of memory of courage and heroism of the people of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945

of September 3, 2011

The State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States which further are referred to as with the Parties

being guided by the conventional principles and rules of international law in the humanitarian area, the Geneva conventions of August 12, 1949 and Additional protocols to them of June 8, 1977, international treaties and the decisions made within the Commonwealth of Independent States (further - the CIS),

considering that the people of the State Parties of the CIS made decisive contribution to achievement of victory over fascism,

expressing the aspiration to keep and immortalize memory of courage and heroism of the people of the State Parties of the CIS in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945,

agreed as follows:

Article 1

For the purposes of this agreement the following terms mean:

memory perpetuating - the activities directed to preserving respect for the died military personnel, to their courage and heroism, directly connected with arrangement, preserving and content of military burials and military monuments, carrying out search works for the purpose of identification of unaccounted military burials and personal data of the died military personnel for forming on this basis of electronic databank and also implementation of the additional actions provided by the national legal system of the Parties;

the died military personnel is the citizens of the former USSR who were part of Armed Forces of the USSR, guerrilla groups and other underground anti-fascist forming, the home front workers who died and buried during fighting in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945 in captivity and also the dead as a result of their effects in hospitals, including in post-war time, in the territories of the Parties;

military burials - places of burial of the died military personnel, including individual and mass graves, cemeteries or sites of cemeteries, in the territories of the Parties;

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