Alma-Ata Protocol

Due to the Alma- Ata Declaration ( also: Alma- Ata Declaration; Russian Алма - Атинская декларация ) of 21 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 (the three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania do not consider themselves as the successor states of the USSR ) - in the former capital of Kazakhstan, Alma- Ata (now Almaty) signed, the Soviet Union was dissolved for explained.

In Directory B of the Federal Official Gazette of the Federal Republic of Germany on 8 February 2006, the statement will be re quoted as follows:

" With the creation of the Commonwealth of Independent States the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics ceased to exist on. The members of the Community guarantee in accordance with their constitutional rules, the implementation of international obligations arising from the treaties and agreements of the former USSR. "