CIS Charter

Charter/Statutes of the Commonwealth of Independent States

Type	Treaty establishing the bodies and functions of the Commonwealth of Independent States and defining its membership
Signed	22 January 1993
Location	Minsk, Belarus
Effective	22 January 1994
Signatories	Boris Yeltsin Stanislav Shushkevich Levon Ter-Petrosyan Nursultan Nazarbayev Askar Akayev Emomali Rahmonov Islam Karimov
Parties	Russia Belarus Armenia Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Moldova Tajikistan Uzbekistan Azerbaijan
Depositary	Minsk, Belarus
Languages	the official languages of the signatory states of the Commonwealth

The Charter of the Commonwealth of Independent States, also known as the Statutes of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS Charter; Russian: Устав Содружества Независимых Государств, Ustav Sodruzhestva Nezavisimyh Gosudarstv, Устав СНГ), is an international agreement between the states forming the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS).