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<text>
<title>
Alma-Ata Declaration, Eleven Republics
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Foreign Policy Bulletin, January-April 1992
The Reorganization of Europe: Alma-Ata Declaration, Eleven
Republics, December 21, 1991
</hdr>
<body>
<p> THE INDEPENDENT STATES--the Azerbaijani Republic, the
Republic of Armenia, the Republic of Belarus, the Republic of
Kazakhstan, the Republic of Kirgizstan, the Republic of
Moldova, the Russian Federation, the Republic of Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan, the Republic of Uzbekistan and Ukraine,
</p>
<p> SEEKING to build democratic law-governed states, the
relations between which will develop on the basis of mutual
recognition and respect for state sovereignty and sovereign
equality, the inalienable right to self-determination,
principles of equality and noninterference in internal affairs,
the rejection of the use of force, the threat of force and
economic and any other methods of pressure, a peaceful
settlement of disputes, respect for human rights and freedoms,
including the rights of national minorities, a conscientious
fulfillment of commitments and other generally recognized
principles and standards of international law;
</p>
<p> RECOGNIZING AND RESPECTING each other's territorial
integrity and the inviolability of the existing borders;
</p>
<p> BELIEVING that the strengthening of the relations of
friendship, good neighborliness and mutually advantageous
cooperation, which has deep historic roots meets the basic
interests of nations and promotes the cause of peace and
security;
</p>
<p> BEING AWARE of their responsibility for the preservation of
civil peace and interethnic accord;
</p>
<p> BEING LOYAL to the objectives and principles of the
agreement on the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent
States;
</p>
<p> ARE MAKING the following statement:
</p>
<p> Cooperation between members of the commonwealth will be
carried out in accordance with the principle of equality
through coordinating institutions formed on a parity basis and
operating in the way established by the agreements between
members of the commonwealth, which is neither a state nor a
super-state structure.
</p>
<p> In order to insure international strategic stability and
security, allied command of the military-strategic forces and
a single control over nuclear weapons will be preserved, the
sides will respect each other's desire to attain the status of
a non-nuclear or neutral state.
</p>
<p> The Commonwealth of Independent States is open, with the
agreement of all its participants, for other states to join--members of the former Soviet Union as well as other states
sharing the goals and principles of the commonwealth.
</p>
<p> The allegiance to cooperation in the formation and
development of the common economic space, and all-European and
Eurasian markets is being confirmed.
</p>
<p> With the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent
States, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceases to exist.
</p>
<p> Member states of the commonwealth guarantee, in accordance
with their constitutional procedures, the fulfillment of
international obligations stemming from the treaties and
agreements of the former U.S.S.R.
</p>
<p> Member states of the commonwealth pledge to observe strictly
the principles of this declaration.
</p>
<p>(Signed at Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan by Ayaz Mutalibov, Azerbaijan;
Stanislav Shushkevich, Belarus; Levon Ter-Petrossian, Armenia;
Nursultan Nazarbayev, Kazakhstan; Askar Akayev, Kirgizstan;
Mircea Snegur, Moldova; Boris Yeltsin, Russian Federation;
Rakhamon Nabiyev, Tajikistan; Saparamurad Niyazov, Turkmenistan;
Islam Karimov, Uzbekistan; and Leonid Kravchuk, Ukraine. (Texts
distributed by Tass)
</p>
</body>
</article>
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