The Commonwealth of Independent States - Annex

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Decision of the Council of Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States¹

The Heads of State of the Commonwealth of Independent States have decided:

(1) To adopt the Charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States (attached) and recommend it for ratification.

(2) Until entry into force of the present Charter, the Commonwealth shall function in accordance with the agreements and decisions reached within the CIS.

Done at the city of Minsk on 22 January 1993 in a single original in the Russian language. The original shall be deposited in the Archives of the Government of the Republic of Belarus, which shall transmit a duly certified copy to each of the States which have signed the present Decision.

For the Republic of Armenia: L. Ter-Petrosyan

For the Republic of Belarus: S. Shushkevitch

For the Republic of Kazakhstan: N. Nazarbaev

For the Republic of Kyrgyzstan: A. Akaev

For the Republic of Moldova

For the Russian Federation: B. Eltsin

For the Republic of Tajikistan: E. Rakhmonov

For Turkmenistan

For the Republic of Uzbekistan: I. Karimov

For Ukraine.

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1 Translated from Russian by S.A. Voitovich, revised by Iain L. Fraser.

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