AGREEMENT on Friendship and Cooperation
Between the
The
Based on the commonality of goals and tasks on
strengthening their statehood,
Striving for the further development and
strengthening of the cooperation in the political, social, environmental,
cultural and other fields…
Expressing the readiness to contribute to the
settlement of pressing economic and social issues,
Decided to conclude this Agreement on friendship
and cooperation and
agreed upon the following:
Article 1
Contracting Parties, recognizing the sovereignty
of the
(…)
Article 2
Contracting parties shall refrain themselves from
the acts that run counter to the political, economic, environmental or other
interests.
(…)
Article 3
Contracting parties shall develop and promote
trade, economic and scientific cooperation coordinating the economic activities
in order to settle more effective forms and directions of bilateral
cooperation.
Contracting parties shall consider the possibility
to establish the most favorable conditions for each other through mutual
commodity circulation in compliance with the legislation of the
Article 5
Contracting parties shall cooperate in the field
of state building…
Article 7
The sides shall attach the necessary effort for
strengthening of peace on their territories.
Article 9
Contracting Parties consider necessary to
establish representation offices in the cities of
(…)
The Procedures of the exchange of representatives
and their status shall be regulated by the Agreement between the Sides
Article 10
This Agreement is concluded for five years term…
Article 11
This Agreement is signed in the city of
For the Republic of Abkhazia the Chairman of the
Parliament V. G. Ardzinba
For the
(Newspaper “Abkhazia”, # 2, 17 August 1994)