Thursday, 28, March, 2024

President Shavkat Mirziyoyev signed the Ratification of the Convention on the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the States-Parties to the Commonwealth of Independent States (Minsk, May 26, 1995) Bill into Law.

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

The Convention has been ratified with the following reservation:

"The Republic of Uzbekistan will contribute funds to finance the activities of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly (IPA) of the States-Parties to the Commonwealth of Independent States within the limit 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-member in the CIS Inter-Parliamentary Assembly. Now almost all the former countries of the former Soviet Union except the Baltic states, Georgia and Turkmenistan.

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