Eurasian Economic Community: Difference between revisions

|membership = {{ubl|[[Belarus]]<br />|[[Kazakhstan]]<br />|[[Kyrgyzstan]]<br />|[[Russia]]<br />|[[Tajikistan]]}}

<ref>{{cite web|ssrn=2412319|title=Regionalizing Multilateralism: The Effect of Russia's Accession to the WTO on Existing Regional Integration Schemes in the Former Soviet Space|publisher=UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs, Vol. |volume=18, No. |number=2|date=2014|author=Boris N. Mamlyuk}}</ref> The organisation originated from the [[Commonwealth of Independent States]] (CIS) on 29 March 1996,<ref>[[WTO]] [http://docsonline.wto.org/DDFDocuments/t/WT/ACC/KGZ30.DOC WT/REG71/1] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111209125602/http://docsonline.wto.org/DDFDocuments/t/WT/ACC/KGZ30.DOC |date=2011-12-09 }}</ref> with the treaty on the establishment of the Eurasian Economic Community signed on 10 October 2000 in Kazakhstan's capital [[Astana]] by Presidents [[Alexander Lukashenko]] of Belarus, [[Nursultan Nazarbayev]] of Kazakhstan, [[Askar Akayev]] of [[Kyrgyzstan]], [[Vladimir Putin]] of Russia, and [[Emomali Rahmon]] of [[Tajikistan]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.worldtradelaw.net/fta/agreements/eaecfta.pdf|title=WorldTradeLaw.net|website=www.worldtradelaw.net}}</ref> [[Uzbekistan]] joined the community on 7 October 2005, howeverbut later withdrew on 16 October 2008.