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Comment: Political and legal status of C.I.S.

  • UPSC 1994
  • 20 marks
  • Regionalisation of World Politics

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The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is the only regional organisation created to wind up a state. The Belovezha Accords (8 December 1991), signed by Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, declared that the USSR had ceased to exist "as a subject of international law and a geopolitical reality". The Alma-Ata Protocol (21 December 1991) added eight…

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  • Legal status: an intergovernmental body, not a union
  • Political status: two purposes that pulled apart
  • Erosion since 1994
  • Significance for India
  • Conclusion
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