Russian Federation On ratification of the Convention on the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the States Parties Commonwealth of Independent States Accepted State Duma of 24 May 1996 approved by the Council of the Federation on 5 June 1996 to ratify the Convention on the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly of the States Members of the Commonwealth of Independent States, signed by States of the Commonwealth of Independent States in Minsk on 26 May In 1995, with the following reservation: " The Russian Federation understands that the provisions of the Convention on the Interparliamentary Assembly of the States members of the Commonwealth of Independent States providing for the possibility of implementation The Inter-Parliamentary Assembly or its commercial activities for profit are incompatible with the status of the Inter-Parliamentary Assembly as an inter-State organ of the Commonwealth of Independent States, financed on the basis of of States Parties and does not consider itself bound by the The relevant provisions of the Convention "and the following statement: " The Russian Federation understands that the provisions of article 4, paragraph (e), of the Convention on the Interparliamentary Assembly of the Commonwealth of Independent States, States may only be recommendatory in nature ". President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin Moscow, Kremlin 17 June 1996 N 75-FZ
