CUET Preparation Today
The declaration of the disintegration of USSR led to the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States. Identify the country which was NOT a party in annuling the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and for agreeing to establish the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). |
Belarus Russia Kazakhstan Ukraine |
Kazakhstan |
The correct answer is Option 3 - Kazakhstan 1991 December: Russia, Belarus and Ukraine decide to annul the 1922 Treaty on the Creation of the USSR and establish the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS); Armenia, Azerbaijan, Moldova, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the CIS (Georgia joins later in 1993); Russia takes over the USSR seat in the United Nations. Power began to shift from the Soviet centre to the republics, especially in the more Europeanised part of the Soviet Union, which saw themselves as sovereign states. The Central Asian republics did not ask for independence and wanted to remain with the Soviet Federation. In December 1991, under the leadership of Yeltsin, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, three major republics of the USSR, declared that the Soviet Union was disbanded. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union was banned. Capitalism and democracy were adopted as the bases for the post-Soviet republics. The declaration on the disintegration of the USSR and the formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) came as a surprise to the other republics, especially to the Central Asian ones. The exclusion of these republics was an issue that was quickly solved by making them founding members of the CIS. Russia was now accepted as the successor state of the Soviet Union. It inherited the Soviet seat in the UN Security Council. Russia accepted all the international treaties and commitments of the Soviet Union. It took over as the only nuclear state of the postSoviet space and carried out some nuclear disarmament measures with the US. The old Soviet Union was thus dead and buried. ***** Note: There was a mistake in NTA question. It has been slightly modified to make it correct. |
