Armenia participates in CIS states interparliamentary assembly

CIS - The Commonwealth of Independent States, an interstate association (agreement on cooperation between independent countries) of the most former Soviet republics of USSR. The organization was founded on 8 December 1991 by the Republic of Belarus, the Russian Federation, and Ukraine, when the leaders of the three countries signed a Creation Agreement on the dissolution of the Soviet Union and the creation of CIS. 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.\r\n\r\nOn 21 December 1991, the leaders of eight additional former Soviet Republics - Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan agreed to join the CIS, thus bringing the number of participating countries to 11. Georgia joined two years later, in December 1993. As of that time, 12 of the 15 former Soviet Republics participated in the CIS.