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Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Established in 1991 as a pivotal security relationship between the 12 of the former Soviet Union states (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan), CIS member states have agreements ranging from security related intelligence to transnational organized crime, smuggling, narcotics, and terrorism. These efforts include a counterterrorism center located in Moscow and a subsidiary one in Bishkek.

Perhaps most important to CIS is the Collective Security Treaty of May 15,1992, (from which Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Uzbekistan withdrew in 1999) which mandated that each member state would agree to cooperate in intelligence sharing and would not conduct covert intelligence collection activities in another member state. Following the signing of this treaty, CIS established the Council of Collective Security, composed of the Heads of States involved in the agreement, which is an ongoing committee which works to share intelligence and defense assistance between members.