The+Common+Wealth+of+Independent+States

__//**[|The Commonwealth Of Independent States]**//__ The Common Wealth of Independent states was established by a treaty signed at Minsk, Belarus, on December 8, 1991 by the heads of state of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. The purpose of The Common Wealth of Independent States is coordinating the foreign and economic policies of its member nations. The treaty recognized each border with equality and established a free-market ruble zone embracing the republics interdependent economies. All the countries in the treaty have their own currency.

**//__ [|The Commonwealth Of Independent States Members] __//**
 * Azerbaijan
 * Armenia
 * Belarus,
 * Georgia
 * Kazakhstan
 * Kyrgyzstan
 * Moldova
 * Russia
 * Tajikistan
 * Turkmenistan
 * Uzbekistan
 * Ukraine

The [|purpose] of the Commonwealth of Independent States is to serve further development and strengthening of relations of friendship, and mutual understanding and mutually beneficial cooperation between member states. The [|goal]of the Commonwealth of Independent States is to coordinate common foreign and security policy and to regulate economic interactions by developing common economic space with a common customs policy. The Commonwealth of Independent States [|objective] is to form a common economic space grounded on free movement of goods, services, labor force, and capital. They want to bring together methods of regulating economic activity and create favorable conditions for the development of direct production relations.
 * //__The Commonwealth Of Independent States Purpose/Goals/Objectives__//**

There are three branches of the CIS: the Charter Bodies, the Executive Bodies, and the Bodies of Branch Cooperation. The charter bodies concist of the Councel of heads of states, heads of government, foreign ministers, defense ministers etc. The executive branch concists of the economic council, executive committee, and the Council of Permanent Plenipotentiary Representatives of the States-Participants of the Commonwealth under Charter and Other Bodies of the Commonwealth.
 * __//[|Structure/Hierarchy/Subdivisions of the Commonwealth of Independent States]//__**

The Commonwealth of Independent States Advantages is that they have alliance with other countries, they also have defense, and they also have military aide from the rest of the countries that are in The Commonwealth of Independent States. The Commonwealth of Independent States disadvantages are the major influences by Russia.
 * //__[|The Commonwealth of Independent States Advantages and Disadvantages]__//**

//__** [|The Commonwealth of Independent States local diversity] **__// The Commonwealth of Independent states is effected by local diversity by Russia. Russia has been a heavy influence in The Commonwealth of Independent States. Russia also spreads around its cultural beliefs in The Commonwealth of Independent States.

http://www.cisstat.com/eng/cis.htm http://www.caei.com.ar/es/programas/cei/P27.pdf http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0813056.html
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