Witold Fokin on the disappearance of the CIS documents

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Word to the Rector — on the disappearance of the CIS documents

Russia is the legal successor of the USSR on the territory of all the Union republics.

The originals of the Beloveza Agreements have been destroyed. No one can find them. There were only some private drafts and supposedly copies of the original text. The first public announcement that the document had disappeared appeared in 2012.

The former Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Ukrainian SSR, Witold Fokin, the last surviving signatory of the Belovezha Agreements, has repeatedly stated in interviews that he regrets the disappearance of the original, and also claimed that the signed document contained completely different provisions than those that remained in the "copies." In particular, the new union of states was to be called not a Commonwealth, but a Union of Independent States with a common strategic defense system, uniform tariffs, and free movement of goods and passenger traffic.

All the other participants in the signing of the Belovezha Agreements also claimed that they did not know where the original was. Moreover, their stories about the contents of the document were quite different from each other.