The International cooperation
According to Article 39 of Federal Law #63
"On the Bar and bar activity in the Russian Federation" lawyers of our law office have the right
to establish societies of lawyers or apply for membership at other
lawyers foundations in the framework of international and regional
cooperation. Lawyers of our office are also entitled to participate in
short- or long-term collegiate agreements on joint cooperation, according
to international treaties and legal service conventions.
On September 3, 2004, the Executive Committee of Coordination
Counsel of the International Lawyers Union, the Governing Board of the
International Commonwealth of Attorneys and the Governing Board of the
Central Counsel of the Union of Lawyers of Russia adopted a decree on
joint efforts of lawyers to create a unified legal framework for CIS. On September 24,
2004, representatives
of the International Commonwealth of Attorneys, the Russian Federal Union
of Attorneys and the Ukrainian Union of Attorneys adopted a Resolution
following up the Agreement on creating a unified legal framework, which
was signed by Presidents of Belarus, Kazakhstan, the Russian Federation and Ukraine. In this Resolution parties agreed to develop a
unified legal regulatory system of economic and financial relations, to
establish a legal system of the uniform economic territory, to harmonize
country legislations throughout CIS to the extent required for the normal
functioning of the single economic space.
The parties came to a common opinion that the
development of this single economic framework would lead to a growth in
trade turnover of the countries involved, a flow of capital and
strengthening competitive advantages of the national economies. It was
also mentioned that the improvement and further development of country
legislations should be based on the European legal system due to its
resemblance to the legal systems of CIS countries, thus facilitating the
approximation of CIS and European Union’s legal norms.
Due to existing contradictions in CIS
international treaties and agreements, the given Resolution proposes to
revise all CIS international agreements and give recommendations on
necessary changes to be made. The development of single procedures for
settling economic disputes between members of the unified economic area
will enable CIS attorneys to represent interest of their clients in
judicial and arbitration bodies throughout the CIS.
The Russian party in developing and signing the
given Resolution was represented by President of the International
Commonwealth of Attorneys and Vice-President of the Russian Federal Union
of Attorneys G. Voznesenskiy, and the Ukrainian
party – by First Vice-President of the Ukrainian Union of Attorneys,
Chancellor of the Bar Academy of Ukraine and Professor of Law T. Varfolomeyeva.
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