CHISINAU, March 20. /TASS/. Moldova’s parliament approved in first reading the country’s withdrawal from the agreement on the establishment of the CIS and the Almaty declaration.

"To denounce the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States that was signed in Minsk on December 8, 1991 and the protocol to the Agreement on the Establishment of the Commonwealth of Independent States that was signed in Almaty on December 21, 1991," the resolution says.