![]() The Belarusian capital city of Minsk was designated as the administrative center of the CIS. On the same day, Ivan Korotchenya became the first Executive Secretary of the CIS. ![]() On December 25, 1991, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev resigned, leading to the official dissolution of the Soviet Union. However, the three Baltic states, Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, refused to be a part of the CIS. In December 1993, Georgia also became a member of the Commonwealth. These nations were Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan. ![]() ![]() On December 21, 1991, the leaders of eight sovereign nations signed the Alma-Ata Protocol and thereby became member states of CIS on an equal basis. The Commonwealth was first formed by the leaders of the Russian Federation (Russian SFSR), Belarus (Byelorussian SSR), and Ukraine (Ukrainian SSR) on December 8, 1991, when they signed the “Agreement Establishing the Commonwealth Independent States.” The founder members of the CIS also announced that this new organization was open to all the former Soviet Republics and all the member states of this new alliance would be sovereign and independent of their own. ![]()
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