The EurAsEU is global, even if some former Soviet republics don't want to join it
Vestnik Kavkaza
Five years ago, on 18 August 2009, the formal procedure of Georgia's withdrawal from the CIS ended. It joined the Commonwealth in December 1993, and already on 12 August 2008 Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili declared the country's withdrawal from the CIS. Two days later, the Georgian parliament passed a resolution on the expiration of regulations regarding Georgia, "Agreement on the Establishment of the CIS" of 8 December 1991, "The decisions of the Council of CIS Heads of State on the adoption of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of 22 January 1993 and the "Treaty on Economic Union" of 24 September 1993.
For several months, representatives of the new Ukrainian authorities argued that they also do not want to have anything to do with the Commonwealth.
The president of the Center of Systems Analysis and Forecasting, Rostislav Ishchenko, is sure that the CIS since its inception, "theoretically was considered as a possible mechanism of integration, as a possible mechanism of civilized divorce, something like the British Commonwealth. It became neither the one nor the other, and not the third. Let’s recall that Ukraine is not a member of the CIS. Ukraine was a founder of the CIS, and then in Ukraine, for Ukraine itself, a good term was coined, "a CIS participant state", because at the time that the CIS was declared an international organization, Ukraine had not signed its charter or other documents. In fact, Ukraine is not a member of the CIS as an international organization. From the fact that Ukraine once claimed, nothing has remained, because it is not clear what Russia, Ukraine and Belarus stated in the Bialowieza Forest at the time. It didn’t become an institution of any kind. "
Ishchenko believes that "today the CIS is a huge array of signed bilateral and multilateral documents, in which not all of the CIS countries are involved. What is the most interesting, Georgia, coming out of the CIS, actually has not denounced any of the documents that have been signed within the CIS. That is, in fact, Georgia only formally ceased to be a member of the CIS. All documents that govern its relationship with other members of the CIS, the vast majority, have remained in force."
According to the expert, the Customs Union and the Eurasian Union go far beyond the CIS: "These are global projects, as opposed to the CIS, which closes in the USSR, even though in the past Serbia, when it had to somehow fend off the aggression of NATO, expressed its desire to become a member of the Commonwealth. In this case, the CIS was seen only in the light of bilateral relations with Russia. Georgia says: "We leave the CIS because we are at war with Russia, our Abkhazia and South Ossetia were occupied." Perfect! And are you fighting with Kazakhstan at the same time? And Ukraine has almost opened a war with Russia in support of Georgia, although Ukraine is a kind of participant in the CIS, and Kazakhstan is a member of the CIS, but states are leaving because they are fighting with Russia. Now Ukraine also does not make it a secret that it is trying to implement some movements within the CIS, but only to annoy Russia. "
Ishchenko sees the idea of creating a Eurasian Union as "a beautiful geopolitical move": "We will build a Eurasian alliance with Iran and China, if they join it. Well, if they do not, we will do so with France and Germany, the EU. At least this is not a project designed to be enclosed within the limits of the USSR. Moreover, if some of the states of the former Soviet Union do not join, it does not negate either the global nature of this project or its long-term plan."
