RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE
STATE DUMA OF THE FEDERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION on Legal Effect for the Russian Federation
of the Results of the USSR Referendum of 17 March of 1991 on the issue of
Keeping the USSR
Confirming the
ambition of the peoples of Russia to the economic and political integration
with the states established on the territory of the Union of the Soviet
Socialist Republics, responding to the numerous appeals of the subjects of the
Russian federation, considering the results of the Referendum of the Republic
of Belorus of 14 May 1995, being guided with the idea
of restoring the state unity of the peoples of the USSR in any acceptable form,
the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the
1. To approve for the
2. To note that the
officials of the RSFSR, who drafted, signed and ratified the decision on
cessation of existence of the USSR, grossly violated the will of the peoples of
the Russian Federation expressed by them at the USSR’s Referendum held on 17
March 1991, as well as the Declaration on State Sovereignty of the Russian
Soviet Federative Socialist
Republic stating on the ambition of the peoples of Russia to
establish the democratic legal state within the renewed USSR.
3. To confirm, that
the Agreement on establishing the Commonwealth of Independent States, signed on
8 December 1991 by the President of the RSFSR B.N. Yeltsin and the State
Secretary of the RSFSR G.E. Khasbulatov, which was not approved at the Congress
of People’s Deputies of the RSFSR had and still has no legal effect in the part
of cessation of existence of the USSR.
4. To take note of
the fact, that interstate and intergovernmental agreements on political,
economic, defence and other issues concluded within
the frame of the Agreement on Establishing the Commonwealth of Independent
States shall retain their legal force until the involved states make volunteer
and free decision on reestablishment of the unified state, or until these
states make decision on termination of validity of the aforementioned
agreements.
5. To advise the
Government of the
6. The deputies
delegated to the Interparliamentary Assembly of the
Commonwealth of Independent States shall facilitate to the process of
developing the Interparliamentary Assembly as an
effective tool for integration and cooperation of states established on the
territory of the
7. The Committees
of the State Duma shall elaborate and submit to the
Council of State Duma the action plan for removing
the aftermath of dissolution of the
Chairman of the
State Duma
of the Federal Assembly
of the
(Collection
of Legislation of the RF, M., 1996, # 13, p. 3152-3153/in Russian)