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- <text>
- <title>
- Declaration on Institutions, Eleven Republics
- </title>
- <article>
- <hdr>
- Foreign Policy Bulletin, January-April 1992
- The Reorganization of Europe: Declaration on Institutions,
- Eleven Republics, December 21, 1991
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> A supreme body of commonwealth--a Council of the Heads of
- State"--as well as a "Council of the Heads of Government"
- shall be set up with a view to tackling matters connected with
- coordinating the activities of the states of the new
- commonwealth in the sphere of common interests.
- </p>
- <p> The plenipotentiary representatives of the states of the new
- commonwealth shall be instructed to submit proposals concerning
- the abolition of the structures of the former Soviet Union, as
- well as the coordinating institutions of the commonwealth for
- the consideration of the Council of the Heads of State.
- </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>
- </text>
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