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Belovezh Accords
Sign in to saveAlso known as Denunciation of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR, Belavezh Accords, Belavezha Agreement, End of the Soviet Union, Belovezha Accords, Belavezha Accords
agreement that declared dissolution of the USSR by its founder states (denunciation of 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR) and established the CIS
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Within Vinony's link graph, Belovezh Accords is referenced by 319 other articles, and connects out to republic of the Soviet Union, Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and international law.
It is catalogued under topics including 1990s in Minsk, 1991 in Belarus and 1991 in Russia.
Its subject is documented across 39 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Type
- Treaty establishing a loose regional organisation
- Signed
- 8 December 1991
- Location
- Viskuli , Belovezh Forest , Belarus , ( de facto ) , Minsk , Minsk Oblast , Belarus, ( de jure )
- Effective
- 10 December 1991 12 December 1991 23 December 1991 25 December 1991 26 December 1991 4 January 1992 6 March 1992 24 September 1993 3 December 1993 8 April 1994
- Signatories
- Chairman Stanislav Shushkevich Prime Minister Vyacheslav Kebich President Boris Yeltsin First Deputy Prime Minister Gennady Burbulis President Leonid Kravchuk Prime Minister Vitold Fokin
- Parties
- Republic of Belarus Russian Federation (RSFSR) Ukraine
- Depositary
- Republic of Belarus
- Languages
- Belarusian , Russian , Ukrainian
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- denunciation
- Subclass of
- agreement
- Country
- Belarus
- Location
- Viskuli
- Official website
- cis.minsk.by/reestrv2/doc/1
- Image
- RIAN archive 848095 Signing the Agreement to eliminate the USSR and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States.jpg
- Political ideology
- anti-Sovietism
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- point in time
- 1991-12-08
- inception
- 1991-12-08
- signatory
- Viačasław Kiebič
- Commons category
- Belovezh Accords
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject Ukraine
- ratified by
- Uzbekistan
- has effect
- Russo-Ukrainian war (2022–present)
- language of work or name
- Ukrainian
- has cause
- 1991 Soviet Union referendum
- influenced by
- State Anthem of the Soviet Union
- work available at URL
- www.rusarchives.ru/statehood/10-12-soglashenie-sng.shtml
- has immediate cause
- Treaty on the Creation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
- main regulatory text
- Charter of the United Nations
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Encyclopedic overview
The Agreement on the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (officially), or unofficially the Minsk Agreement and best known as the Belovezha Accords, is the agreement declaring that the Soviet Union (USSR) had effectively ceased to exist and establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place as an organization created by the same Union Republics. The documentation was signed at the state dacha near Viskuli in Belovezhskaya Pushcha, Belarus on 8 December 1991, by leaders of three of the four republics (except for the defunct Transcaucasian SFSR) which had signed the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR:
Belarusian Parliament chairman Stanislav Shushkevich and Prime Minister of Belarus Vyacheslav Kebich
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Belovezh Accords” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.