Alma-Ata Declaration (1991)

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Leonid Kravchuk , Nursultan Nazarbayev , Boris Yeltsin and Stanislaw Schuschkewitsch (from left to right) after the Alma Ata declaration was announced

The Alma-Ata Declaration (also Alma-Ata Declaration called; Russian Алма-Атинская декларация ) from 21st December 1991 , the heads of state of Russia and the other successor republics of the Soviet Union - Armenia , Azerbaijan , Belarus , Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Moldova , Tajikistan , Turkmenistan , Ukraine and Uzbekistan - in the then capital of Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata (today: Almaty), signed, confirmed the dissolution of the Soviet Union . Georgia , Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania did not sign the declaration; the former Soviet republic of Georgia resigned beforehand by declaring itself independent on April 9, 1991 ; the three Baltic states do not consider themselves to be successor states to the USSR.

In reference B of the Federal Law Gazette of the Federal Republic of Germany of February 8, 2006, the declaration is quoted as follows:

“With the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States , the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceases to exist.
The members of the community guarantee, in accordance with their constitutional provisions, the fulfillment of the international obligations arising from the treaties and agreements of the former USSR. "

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