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ARMENIA'S FOREIGN MINISTER HAD A PHONE CONVERSATION WITH GREGORY KARASIN
ARMENPRESS
14 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandyan had a phone conversation with Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister Gregory Karasin. Issues related to Armenian-Russian bilateral
cooperation were discussed, Armenia's Foreign Affairs Ministry press
service told Armenpress.
The interlocutors also referred to cooperation of Armenia and Russia
within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
CIS was founded on 8 December 1991 by the Republic of Belarus,
the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, when the leaders of the three
countries met in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve, about 50 km
(30 miles) north of Brest in Belarus and signed a Creation Agreement
on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of CIS as a
successor entity to the USSR.
At the same time they announced that the new alliance would be open
to all republics of the former Soviet Union, as well as other nations
sharing the same goals. The CIS charter stated that all the members
were sovereign and independent nations and thereby effectively
abolished the Soviet Union.
On 21 December 1991, the leaders of eight additional former Soviet
Republics - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan - signed the Alma-Ata Protocol
and joined the CIS, thus bringing the number of participating countries
to 11.
ARMENPRESS
14 June, 2012
YEREVAN
YEREVAN, JUNE 14, ARMENPRESS: Armenia's Foreign Minister Edward
Nalbandyan had a phone conversation with Russian Deputy Foreign
Minister Gregory Karasin. Issues related to Armenian-Russian bilateral
cooperation were discussed, Armenia's Foreign Affairs Ministry press
service told Armenpress.
The interlocutors also referred to cooperation of Armenia and Russia
within the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).
CIS was founded on 8 December 1991 by the Republic of Belarus,
the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, when the leaders of the three
countries met in the Belovezhskaya Pushcha Natural Reserve, about 50 km
(30 miles) north of Brest in Belarus and signed a Creation Agreement
on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of CIS as a
successor entity to the USSR.
At the same time they announced that the new alliance would be open
to all republics of the former Soviet Union, as well as other nations
sharing the same goals. The CIS charter stated that all the members
were sovereign and independent nations and thereby effectively
abolished the Soviet Union.
On 21 December 1991, the leaders of eight additional former Soviet
Republics - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova,
Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan - signed the Alma-Ata Protocol
and joined the CIS, thus bringing the number of participating countries
to 11.