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The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) [a] is a regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia.It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an area of 20,368,759 km 2 (7,864,422 sq mi) and has an estimated population of 246,200,194.
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), political alliance between the former Soviet Republics of Russia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan. Commonwealth of Nations, fifty-six member states that are mostly Dominions or former territories of the British Empire.
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) consists of 10 former Soviet Republics that differ in their membership statuses. As of December 2024, 9 countries have ratified the CIS charter and are full CIS members (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan), one country is an associate ...
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was founded by an Agreement on the creation the Commonwealth of Independent States (Соглашение о создании Содружества Независимых Государств) signed on 8 December 1991 by Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. [12]
The CIS Charter treaty agreement defines which countries are considered members of the CIS. According to Article 7, only countries that have ratified this treaty are considered members. However, the same article defines the countries that had ratified the Treaty for the Establishment of the CIS and its related protocol as "founding states of ...
The CIS encourages cooperation in economic, political, and military affairs and has certain powers to coordinate trade, finance, lawmaking and security. In addition, six members of the CIS have joined the Collective Security Treaty Organization , an intergovernmental military alliance that was founded in 1992.
Andrey Kushnirenko, Deputy Head of the Economic Development Department of the CIS Executive Committee, stated in 2021 that the Agreement would provide for the liberalization of trade in services as much as possible today and would determine the procedure for CIS companies to operate in the markets of other CIS countries and investment protection, as well as establish dispute settlement procedures.
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