The Community of the independent States

The the Community of the independent States ( CEI ) (in Russian: СодружествоНезависимыхГосударств (СНГ), marked Sodroujestvo Nezavissimykh Gossoudarstv ) is an intergovernmental entity made up of 12 old Soviet republics. In accordance with its constitutive instruments, the agreements of Minsk and Alma-ATA, the CEI is deprived of international legal personality. For this reason, the community of the old republics Soviet is not an international organization.

The CEI was created the December 8th 1991 by the Accord of Minsk, signed by the presidents of RFSSR, the Ukraine and the president of the Parliament of the Republic of Bélarus. Since April 15th, 1994 the community gathers twelve old republics of the USSR. In 2007, the CEI counted eleven full members. This number is likely to be more reduced: in August 2005, the Turkménistan decides to become “associated member”, the Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova evokes the possible denunciation of the constitutive agreements. However, no contrète measurement was undertaken in this direction.

Creation and evolution

The CEI is an intergovernmental community of co-operation of which political identity and legal remainder dubious. It was created by Boris Eltsine, Leonid Kravtchouk and Stanislaw Chouchkievitch on December 8th, 1991 at their meeting to the residence of Viskouly. The agreement constitutive of the CEI was supposed to facilitate the access to the independence of the Soviet republics and to develop the multilateral co-operation on the Espace post-Soviet.

December 21st, 1991, at the time of the top of Alma-ATA, in Kazakhstan, the CEI is extended to eight other States resulting from the USSR: the Moldavie, the Arménie, the Azerbaïdjan, the Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyzstan, the Turkménistan, the Tadjikistan and the Ouzbékistan. Just like the Ukraine, the Federation of Russia and the Bélarus hold the statute of founding member of the Community.

The Charte of the CEI was adopted in 1993, the same year the independent States created a the economic with an aim of developing economic cooperation and commercial Union. The Georgia was forced to require adhesion of the CEI because of the destabilization of the political situation in Abkhazie and in the area of Tskhinvali.

Between 1994 and 1999 the CEI was in paralysis. A reform of its executive bodies was undertaken in the years 2000. The majority of projects initiated within the framework of the CEI failed. In 2005, Turkménistan made known its decision to degrade its participation in the level of observation. Georgia, Moldavie and the Ukraine informed of their possible exit of association.

In spite of the failure observed of the CEI, certain former Soviet republics remain however grouped out of economic material via the Eurasian Economic community, and soldier via the Organization of the Treaty of collective security. So a long-term integration “with European” is not yet completely excluded for a reduced part of the old Soviet space.

Participating states

States founders

December 8th, 1991
  • Russia
  • Ukraine is not Member State with whole share of the CEI because of the rejection of the Charter of the CEI of January 22nd, 1993. It is not an associated member either. Kiev, however, recognizes its quality of founder of the organization under agreement on the creation of the CEI of December 8th, 1991 and the agreements of Alma-ATA of December 21st, 1991.

Member States

  • Russia

  • Kazakhstan
  • Kyrgyzstan
  • Tadjikistan

Associated states

  • (2005). In accordance with the Charter of the CEI, Turkménistan wished to acquire the statute of observer within the organization. However its request is blocked by the presidency of the Council of the Heads of State since the meeting of Kazan in 2005

See too

Related articles

External bonds

  • Executive committee of the CEI

  • Charter of the statistical CEI
  • Committee inter-States of the CEI

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