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| | Commonwealth of Independent States on Encyclopedia.com |
 | | COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES [Commonwealth of Independent States] (CIS), community of independent nations established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 8, 1991, by the heads of state of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. | | | The CIS at first convened only a council of the heads of state of its members, but in 1992 it convened a council of heads of government and a council of foreign ministers. | | | Georgia May Leave Commonwealth of Independent States, Says Speaker |
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| | Charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | Heads of states and heads of governments at sessions of the Council Heads of States and Council of Heads of Governments shall preside sequentially in the order of the names of the member states of the Commonwealth using the Russian alphabet. | | | The supreme body of the Commonwealth shall be the Council of Heads of States. | | | The supreme body of the Commonwealth for questions concerning defense and the protection of external borders of the member states shall be the Council of Heads of States. |
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| | In the document they stated, that the Commonwealth was formed on the basis of sovereign equality of all its members and that the member states were independent and equal subjects of the international law. | | | Countries’ interaction within the CIS is accomplished through its coordinating institutions: Council of Heads of State, Council of Heads of Government, Councils of Foreign Ministers, Defense Ministers, Border Troops Commanders, Interparliamentary assembly, Executive Committee, the latter being legal successor of the Executive Secretariat, and the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union, etc. | | | later, in December 1993 the Commonwealth was joined by Georgia. |
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http://www.cis.minsk.by/main.aspx?uid=3360
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| | The Russian State Duma, parliament's lower house, ratified Wednesday an intergovernmental treaty on the transfer of ownership of the property in Armenia's federal possession to Russia. | | | Russia has also successfully courted CIS member state Turkmenistan, a neutral country which is therefore not a member of the CIS CSO. | | | This was his main argument for the creation of a commonwealth of Turkish states, which, he said, will become a union between Turkey, "the Ottoman Empire successor", Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Turkmenistan. |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Commonwealth of Independent States COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES [Commonwealth of Independent States] (CIS), community of independent nations established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on Dec. 8, 1991, by the heads of state of Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine. | | | Jamaica JAMAICA [Jamaica], independent state within the Commonwealth (2005 est. | | | United States UNITED STATES [United States] officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/02985.html
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| | Commonwealth - Home |
| | Speech by the Rt Hon Don McKinnon, Commonwealth Secretary-General at a conference on ‘Courting Justice: Rule of Law Reform in Africa’ | | | Commonwealth Youth Ministers' Meeting, 22 to 26 May 2006, Nassau, The Bahamas click for more... | | | Former Foreign Minister of Jamaica to Lead Commonwealth Observers for Fiji Islands Elections |
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http://www.thecommonwealth.org/HomePage.asp?NodeID=20593
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The CIS charter stated that all the members were sovereign and independent nations and thereby effectively abolished the USSR. | | | IPA sessions are held twice a year in Saint Petersburg, and are composed of parliamentary delegations of the member states. | | | The treaty reaffirmed the desire of all participating states to abstain from the use or threat of force. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonwealth_of_Independent_States
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) |
| | The capitol of the Commonwealth of Independent States is in Minsk, Belarus. | | | The policy of the CIS is set through coordinating bodies, the two main bodies being the Council of Heads of State and the Council of Heads of Government. | | | Meetings of the leaders of the CIS member states |
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http://www.russiannewsnetwork.com/cis.html
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | In the United States, for example, Pat Buchanan's campaign represents an American edition of this phenomenon. | | | Significantly, the number of deputies in the Executive Secretary was raised from six to twelve -- one representing every state in the CIS. | | | It is difficult to imagine Buchanan getting 25 percent in the United States or Le Pen reviving in France. |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | The December 30, 1991, Agreement creating the Councils of Heads of State and Heads of Government of the CIS stipulated that decisions in both councils would be reached by consensus. | | | The charter also provides for the status of associate members for those who wish to participate only in selected activities, and other states may attend meetings observers if so approved by the Council of the Heads of States. | | | The dissolution of the USSR left Gorbachev with no role or status while conversely transferring to Yelstin, as leader of the new Russian Federation, the governance powers inside Russia hitherto belonging to Gorbachev as chief of state of the USSR. |
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http://www.ndu.edu/inss/McNair/mcnair58/sproch4.html
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| | The Commonwealth of Independent States - Annex |
| | The Member States shall be independent subjects of international law having equal rights. | | | - the territorial integrity of States and rejection of any actions to split another's territory; | | | - promoting free communication, contacts and movement within the Commonwealth for the citizens of the Member States; |
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| | The Commonwealth of Independent States: An Emerging Institutional Model |
| | 66 Both are the consequences of the break-up of fromer multinational state formations (the British Empire and the USSR). | | | 66 On the legal status of the British Commonwealth see: L.C.Creen, `British Commonwealth', in R.Bernhardt (ed.), Encyclopedia of Public International Law, Instalment 10 (1987), 32-35; Oppenheim's International Law, supra note 63, 256-266. | | | This file was last modified: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 10:49AM |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) - Equal Employment Opportunities |
| | The Council of the Heads of State adopted a Charter in January 1993, stipulating the CIS’ goals and principles, and governing its activities. | | | The CIS us headquartered in Minsk, Belarus, and consists of Council of Heads of State, Council of Heads of Government, Councils of Foreign Ministers, Defence Ministers, Border Troops Commanders, Interparliamentary Assembly, Executive Committee, and the Interstate Economic Committee of the Economic Union. | | | The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) was established by Agreement on 8 December 1991 by the leaders of the Republic of Belarus, Russian Federation, and Ukraine. |
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http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/gems/eeo/cis/law/cis.htm
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | In the breakup of the Soviet Union Kazakhstan became a member of the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991. | | | The stamps shows a map of Kazakhstan and a picture of President Nursultan Nasarbajev. | | | Together with ten former Soviet republics it established the Commonwealth of Independent States in 1991. |
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| | Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States | | | The Economic Court of the Commonwealth of Independent States operates for the purposes of fulfilling economic obligations under the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States. | | | The Economic Court carries out its activity in accordance with an Agreement on the Status of the Economic Court and a Statute thereon, approved by the Council of Heads of States. |
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| | International IDEA Europe–Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | interference by state authorities in the election process | | | You are here: IDEA > Europe–Commonwealth of Independent States | | | IDEA’s databases contain information pertaining to elections, party financing, voter turnout, and gender quotas in the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States Peacekeeping Force in Abkhazia |
| | Commonwealth of Independent States Peacekeeping Force in Abkhazia | | | The current mandate of the Commonwealth of Independent States Peacekeeping Force in Abkhazia expired at the end of December, 2002. | | | The United States supports extending the Force's mandate for another six-month period. |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | An interesting specification of the use of the flag for CIS peace keeping forces is in an appendix to the «Decision on the adoption of the statute on collective peace-keeping forces in the Commonwealth of Independent States, adopted in Moscow on 19 January 1996»: | | | Statute on the Flag of the Commonwealth of Independent States | | | The flag is described in Decision on the Statute on the Flag of the Commonwealth of Independent States which was «done at Moscow on 19 January 1996 in one original in the Russian language». |
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| | Russia |
| | This holiday was introduced with a decree No 1714 of president B. Eltsin on 20 of august 1994. | | | Russia is a federated state with, in theory, widespread devolution to its regions. | | | It began to re-surface in 1990, and was officially adopted as the state flag on 21 August 1991, three days after the hardline attempted coup against (USSR) President Gorbaĉëv. |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | I have not been lawfully accorded the privilege of residing permanently in the United States as an immigrant. | | | I arrived in the United States on _________ [insert the date of your first arrival in the United States before beginning the teaching, research, or conference services for which exemption is claimed]. | | | The teaching, research, or conference compensation received during the entire tax year (or during the period from __________ to __________) qualifies for exemption from withholding of federal tax under the tax treaty between the United States and the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. |
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| | Occupational Cancer in the European Part of the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | 8. Zaridze D, Basieva T. Cancer incidence in the Commonwealth of Independent States, the Baltic States and Georgia --the former USSR. | | | Occupational Cancer in the European Part of the Commonwealth of Independent States | | | Cancer Registration Techniques in the Newly Independent States. |
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| | BCSIA - Publication - Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States: UNDP's Perspective of Development and ... |
| | The major Russian private oil companies (e.g., Yukos Sibneft and Lukoil) have been winning the battle against Transneft, the state oil pipeline monopoly, in their attempt to build a new pipeline to Murmansk. | | | Ambassador Richard Morningstar, former U.S. Ambassador to the EU and currently a lecturer at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, served as the moderator for the event. | | | The United States’ deteriorating relationship with President Leonid Kutchma has distorted the proportions of the picture between the president and the crucial importance of the way Ukraine develops for the whole of Europe. |
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| | Belarus The Commonwealth of Independent States - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, Current ... |
| | The Supreme Soviet in April 1993 nonetheless voted to sign the treaty and eventually took revenge on Shushkyevich for his views on the CIS security treaty by dismissing him in January 1994, officially on charges of corruption. | | | He believed such a move would contravene the Declaration of State Sovereignty, which defines Belarus as a neutral state, and that an independent Belarusian army was essential to maintaining the republic's independence from Russia. | | | Shushkyevich refused to sign the CIS Treaty on Collective Security that six other CIS states had signed in May 1992. |
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| | Countries: Commonwealth of Independent States eThemes eMINTS |
| | View the flag of the Commonwealth of Independent States. | | | These sites are about the countries that make up the Commonwealth of Independent States. | | | Home » eThemes » Countries: Commonwealth of Independent States |
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| | Agreement on the Establishment of the CIS |
| | The High Contracting Parties hereby establish the Commonwealth of Independent States. | | | to the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States, | | | This Protocol shall be an integral part of the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States. |
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| | Chapter I: Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | Chapter I: Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States | | | Speaking at a meeting with ambassadors from the CIS and the Baltic states | | | formed into a Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). |
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| | Scientology Effective Solutions - Commonwealth of Independent States & Pakistan |
| | Applied Scholastics International Headquarters in the United States | | | Today, groups and tutors are active throughout the Commonwealth of Independent States. | | | As a result of this programme, the Minister of Education announced the implementation of this technology in 100 Pakistani schools. |
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| | IRINE symposium; immunologic advances in the Commonwealth of Independent States(Part 1). |
| | This symposium describes the advances in immunology that have occurred in the Commonwealth of Independent States. | | | The state of the art may have changed since the publication date. | | | Petrov and Khaitov, immunologist from the Commonwealth of Independent States, have conducted studies that are among the leading epidemiological immune investigations of our time to determine the effects of the Chernobyl radiation on the immune system. |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | Integration of the countries in the framework of the Commonwealth of Independent States is executed through its coordinating institutions (charter bodies, executive bodies and the bodies of branch cooperation of the CIS). | | | In the adopted Declaration the participants of the Commonwealth declared their interaction on the basis of sovereign equality. | | | Council of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives of the States-Participants of the Commonwealth under Charter |
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| | eWENR, July/August 2000: Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | As of this year, the state system of higher education in Belarus is comprised of 42 colleges and universities. | | | However many fields offered at state universities — international relations, international economic relations, international law, etc. — require proficiency in two foreign languages. | | | All students are required to complete three years of foreign language study. |
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| | Pravda.RU:Commonwealth of Independent States: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow |
| | AP photo: Presidents of state members of CIS (Commonvealth of Independent States) walk for the summit in Kremlin's St. Vladimir's Hall on Friday, Nov. 30, 2001 | | | The main political subject on the pages of the Russian newspapers is the summit of the leaders of the countries included in the Commonwealth of Independent States, which has recently taken place in Moscow. | | | All leaders of the CIS countries took part in the summit, even President of Azerbaijan Geydar Aliyev, who was sick. |
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| | Home > Process > Regions > Western Commonwealth of Independent States | | | The Human Rights Center Vyasna, Belarus, in collaboration with Nonviolence International (Russian Federation) and the Joint Committee for Democratisation and Reconciliation (Moldova), was responsible for the initiating phase of the programme in this region. | | | The organisations involved have good contacts with their colleges both in Eastern European states, as well as in Russia and other CIS regions. |
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| | Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | Countries comprising the Former Soviet Union (Commonwealth of Independent States) | | | cis.shp Countries comprising the Former Soviet Union (Commonwealth of Independent States): U.S. Geological Survey, Denver, CO. | | | ESRI is a registered trademark in the United States and either a trademark or registered trademark in all other countries where it is used, and ArcExplorer, Arc/Info, Arcview and Arcworld are trademarks of Environmental Systems Research, Inc. |
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| | The Manila Times Internet Edition OPINION > Experts hear death bells ringing for Russia’s CIS |
| | MOSCOW: The Commonwealth of Independent States, an organization loosely uniting all former Soviet republics minus the three Baltic states, was always fragile to begin with, but with three consecutive revolutions among its members within a year and a half, it is now all but crumbling. | | | Even Russia, which has been the organization’s driving force since its inception 14 years ago, now seems increasingly resigned to seeing the 12-member CIS sink into irrelevance. | | | OPINION > Experts hear death bells ringing for Russia’s CIS |
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| | Commonwealth Of Independent States Developing Regional Plan |
| | The meeting in Armenia includes national AIDS program directors from 12 member states of the CIS Coordinating Council on HIV/AIDS. | | | Top health officials from the Commonwealth of Independent States opened a two-day meeting yesterday in Yerevan, Armenia, to develop regional and national strategies to improve access to HIV/AIDS treatment and care, including negotiations with drug manufacturers on price reductions, according to the Joint U.N. Program on HIV/AIDS. | | | UNAIDS Program Development Adviser Arkadiusz Majszyk, who addressed the meeting, said the session is "a very important step toward implementing the CIS Program of Urgent Response to the HIV/AIDS Epidemic, which was developed and adopted by heads of government from the CIS region in May 2002." |
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| | FEATURED BOOKS |
| | Armed violence and violations of human rights have led to waves of population displacement in the former Soviet Union and many of the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) on a scale unseen since World War II. | | | In the late 1980s, previously rigid and centralized government control relaxed and weapons became readily available, leading to the outbreak of some 10 armed conflicts or sustained, organized violence that lasted from weeks to years. |
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| | Moldova - Commonwealth of Independent States |
| | It was only in April 1994 that the new Parliament finally approved Moldova's membership in the CIS and signed a CIS charter on economic union. | | | It thus embarked upon a difficult course of independence, maneuvering between Russia and Romania, both of which have strong interests in the region, and each of which is more powerful than the young republic. | | | Further, along with Ukraine and Turkmenistan, Moldova refused to sign a January 1993 agreement that would have strengthened political and economic integration among CIS members. |
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