RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE STATE DUMA OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION on strengthening the integration of the peoples united within the USSR and annulment of the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 12 December 1991 ‘on Denunciation of the Treaty of Establishing the USSR’

Being guided with the idea of providing the larger space for volunteer integration of the fraternal peoples united within the USSR, and based on the will of the majority of the population of the country expressed at the Referendum of the USSR on 17 March 1991, the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation decrees:

1. To consider null and void the Decree issued by the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 12 December 1991 ‘on Denunciation of the Treaty of Establishing the USSR’ (Messengers of the Congress of the People’s deputies of the RSFSR and the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, 1991, #51, p.1799).

2 The legal and other normative acts proceeding from the Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 12 December 1991 ‘on Denunciation of the Treaty of Establishing the USSR’ shall be corrected in pursuance to the movement of the fraternal peoples on the way to further strengthening of integration and unification.

3. To advise the President of the Russian Federation to work out the measures for further integration of the Russian Federation, Belorus and other former republics of the USSR, including holding the Referendum in the Russian Federation on step-by-step strengthening of the unity of the peoples constituting the USSR.

4. To advise the Government of the Russian Federation to exercise control over implementation of integration processes in economic, scientific-technological progress, social-cultural and defence fields aimed at strengthening the cooperation within the scope of agreements with the states- members of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

5. The deputies of the State Duma at the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States shall firmly support the process of strengthening and developing the cooperation of the fraternal peoples in the field of legal and international cooperation.

Chairman of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation G. Selezmyev

15 March 1996, Moscow

(Collection of Legislation of the RF, M., 1996, # 13, p. 3154/in Russian)