Международная правосубъектность Содружества Независимых Государств

Abstract

The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional international intergovernmental organization established by sovereign independent states with the aim of coordinating their cooperation on a wide range of issues. The CIS Charter and other legal acts of the Commonwealth especially emphasize that the CIS is not a state or suprastate formation. The international legal personality of the CIS is of a secondary and derivative nature. It is realized within the boundaries defined by the member-states in special constituent instruments. Nevertheless, in the beginning of the 21st century it is practically impossible to find an international intergovernmental organization of the CIS level, which would fail to have some features of the subject of the international public law. This fact brings us closer to the conclusion on admissibility of recognition of the objective nature of the international legal personality of the Commonwealth of Independent States. The treaty capacity of the CIS coincides to a great extent with the legal capacity of other regional intergovernmental organizations. Its realization conforms to the requirements of the 1969 Vienna Convention on the international treaty law and the 1986 Vienna Convention on the law of treaties between states and international organizations or between international organizations. However, at present the CIS has signed only a few treaties in its name. It is to be expected that, as various forms of interstate cooperation within the CIS framework expand and develop, the number of such treaties will grow.