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The Alma-Ata Protocols were the founding declarations and principles of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The leaders of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus had agreed to the Belovezha Accords on 8 December 1991, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved and forming the CIS.
Signing of the Protocol on the Creation of the CIS, Almaty, Kazakhstan. On 7–8 December 1991, the chairman of the Supreme Council of Belarus Stanislaŭ Šuškievič, the President of the Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin and the President of Ukraine Leonid Kravchuk met on the territory of the Republic of Belarus, in the Biełaviežskaja Pušča near Brest.
The Soviet Union officially dissolved on 25 December 1991. After signing the Belavezha Accords on 21 December 1991, the countries of the newly formed CIS signed a protocol on the temporary appointment of Marshal of Aviation Yevgeny Shaposhnikov as Minister of Defence and commander of the armed forces in their territory, including strategic nuclear forces.
Founding state. Signatory of the Alma-Ata Protocol. Moldova: 21 December 1991: 8 April 1994: 27 June 1994 [22] Signatory of the Alma-Ata Protocol. Active participation in CIS ceased in November 2022. [6] Plans to fully withdraw by the end of 2024. Russia: 8 December 1991: 12 December 1991: 20 July 1993 [22] Founding state. Signatory of both the ...
December 21 — Alma-Ata Protocol signed by 11 of 15 former union republics except Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Georgia, declared USSR had effectively ceased to exist and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). 25 December The sole President of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned.
The name is variously translated as Belavezh Accords, Belovezh Accords, Belovezha Accords, Belavezha Agreement, the Belovezhskaya Accord, the Belaya Vezha Accord, etc.A reason of the discrepancy is the difference between Russian and Belarusian names of the eponymous forest's name on the Belarus-Polish border that used to have General Secretary Brezhnev’s hunting lodge.
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