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- <title>
- Declaration on U.N. Membership, Eleven Republics
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- <article>
- <hdr>
- Foreign Policy Bulletin, January-April 1992
- The Reorganization of Europe: Declaration on U.N. Membership,
- Eleven Republics, December 21, 1991
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> Member states of the commonwealth, referring to Article 12
- of the agreement on the creation of the Commonwealth of
- Independent States,
- </p>
- <p> PROCEEDING from the intention of each of the states to
- fulfill its duties stipulated by the U.N. Charter and to take
- part in the work of that organization as equal members;
- </p>
- <p> TAKING into account that previously the Republic of Belarus,
- the U.S.S.R. and Ukraine were members of the United Nations
- organization;
- </p>
- <p> EXPRESSING satisfaction that the Republic of Belarus and
- Ukraine continue to be U.N. members as sovereign independent
- states;
- </p>
- <p> BEING full of resolve to promote the consolidation of world
- peace and security on the basis of the U.N. Charter in the
- interests of their nations and the whole of the world community;
- </p>
- <p> HAVE DECIDED:
- </p>
- <p> 1. Member states of the commonwealth support Russia in
- taking over the U.S.S.R. membership in the U.N., including
- permanent membership in the Security Council and other
- international organizations.
- </p>
- <p> 2. The Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation and
- Ukraine will help other member states of the commonwealth settle
- problems connected with their full membership in the U.N. and
- other international organizations.
- </p>
- <p> Done in Alma-Ata on December 21, 1991, in one copy in the
- Azerbaijani, Armenian, Belarus, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Moldova,
- Russian, Tadzhik, Turkmen, Uzbeck and Ukrainian languages. All
- texts have equal force. The original copy will be kept in the
- archive of the Government of the Republic of Belarus, which
- will send the high contracting parties a certified copy of this
- protocol.
- </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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