DECISION OF COUNCIL OF HEADS OF STATES OF COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES

of October 16, 2015

About the Concept of military state cooperation - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States till 2020

Council of heads of states of the Commonwealth of Independent States solved:

1. Approve the Concept of military state cooperation - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States till 2020 it (is applied).

2. - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States till 2020 to assign implementation of the Concept of military state cooperation to the Council of Ministers of Defense of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Approved by the Decision of Council of heads of states of the Commonwealth of Independent States on the Concept of military state cooperation - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States till 2020 of October 16, 2015

The concept of military state cooperation - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States till 2020

I. General provisions

The concept of military state cooperation - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States till 2020 (further - the Concept) represents set of the approved views of the purposes, tasks, content and the directions of further development of multilateral military cooperation.

The military cooperation is directed to preserving good-neighbourhood, deepening of measures of trust, development of national armed forces, ensuring joint and national security of the State Parties of the Commonwealth of Independent States (further - the CIS, the Commonwealth) on the basis of broad partnership.

Partnership in the field of military cooperation is understood as constructive interaction of the State Parties of the CIS in the military sphere in the directions and questions which are of mutual interest and providing achievement of national significant purposes.

The international legal basis of the Concept is made by the conventional principles and rules of international law, provisions of fundamental documents of the CIS, including the military aspects of the Concept of further development of the Commonwealth of Independent States determining importance of preserving and strengthening of the available directions of military and military and technical cooperation, and also need of development of the new perspective directions of multilateral interaction.

This Concept is based on:

Concepts of further development of the Commonwealth of Independent States;

national interests and joint priorities of the State Parties of the Commonwealth in the field of safety and counteraction to modern challenges and threats;

the reached level and tendencies of development of multilateral military state cooperation - members of the Commonwealth is also logical continuation of the Concept of military state cooperation - members of the Commonwealth of Independent States till 2015.

II. Basic principles, purposes and tasks of military cooperation

Interaction of the State Parties of the CIS in the military sphere acts as component of the international relations directed to strengthening of the world and regional security.

The State Parties of the Commonwealth perform multilateral military cooperation, proceeding from the following basic principles:

preserving and development of the reached interaction level in the military sphere as bases of further enhancement of military cooperation;

mutual respect of sovereignty of each state, non-interference to its internal affairs and accounting of interests of each other when implementing military cooperation;

independent determination by the State Parties of the Commonwealth of level of participation in multilateral military cooperation;

recognition of multi-level and raznoformatny military integration;

combination of general priorities of safety and national interests of the State Parties of the CIS in multilateral military cooperation;

voluntariness of decision making and conscientiousness of accomplishment of the undertaken obligations;

coordination of efforts in observance of the international agreements in questions of arms control.

The purposes of military cooperation, proceeding from the basic principles, are determined by its role in ensuring stable development of the Commonwealth.

The main objective of military cooperation consists in further enhancement of interaction of the State Parties of the Commonwealth in the military sphere for the benefit of safe development of each State Party and the Commonwealth in general.

Realization of main objective of military cooperation is reached through the complex and step-by-step solution of tasks among which the following is key:

forming of the factors of safe and good-neighbourhood development promoting realization of long-term strategic rate of the CIS on political, economic, humanitarian integration of the states;

harmonious combination of general priorities and national interests in the field of ensuring military safety and military cooperation;

enhancement of international legal base of military cooperation and increase in efficiency of the mechanism of its realization;

fixing of the reached interaction level in the military sphere;

consecutive development of priority areas and directions of military cooperation;

search and realization of the new directions of military cooperation;

creation and development of the joint (joint) systems of interaction in the military sphere;

implementation of the new forms of military cooperation promoting increase in efficiency of its realization;

coordination of approaches in providing social guarantees of the military personnel, the citizens discharged from military service and members of their families;

joint projects implementation in the humanitarian area (military education, culture, sport, military and scientific activities, military medicine, archiving, military and memorial work, etc.);

forming of positive image of the Council of Ministers of Defense of the State Parties of the CIS, friendly armies and perspectives of military state cooperation of the Commonwealth;

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