President MIrziyoyev signs the Law on joining of Uzbekistan to CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly 

President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Law “On ratification of the Convention on the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States (Minsk, May 26, 1995).

The document was adopted by the Legislative Chamber on February 22, 2019, approved by the Senate on February 28.

The Convention has been ratified with the following clause:

“The Republic of Uzbekistan will allocate funds to finance the activities of the Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the Commonwealth of Independent States in the amounts necessary to maintain its representatives in it”.

Uzbekistan signed the IPA CIS Convention at a meeting of the Council in November 2018 in St. Petersburg, becoming the tenth country in the CIS Inter-parliamentary Assembly. Now almost all the former republics of the former Soviet Union are in it: the IPA does not include only the Baltic States, Georgia and Turkmenistan.

The Inter-parliamentary Assembly of Member Nations of the CIS was established on March 27, 1992. In 1995, the session of the Council of the CIS Heads of State held in Minsk, Belarus consolidated the status of IPA CIS as a fully-fledged international organization. In May 1995, the leaders of the CIS countries signed the IPA CIS Convention, which was subsequently ratified by the parliaments of nine countries of the Commonwealth.