Belavezha Accords Belavezha Accords The Belavezha Accords (, , ) is the agreement that declared the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as effectively ceasing to exist and established the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in its place as an successor entity. It was signed at the state dacha near Viskuli in Belovezhskaya Pushcha on December 8, 1991, by the leaders of three of the four republics-signatories of the Treaty on the Creation of the USSR — Russian President Boris Yeltsin and First Deputy Prime Minister of RSFSR/Russian Federation Gennady Burbulis, Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk and Prime Minister of Ukraine Vitold Fokin, Belarusian
Post-presidency of Bill Clinton 10, a Clinton aide said he had phoned Trump that afternoon to congratulate the president-elect on his victory. On December 20, Trump took to Twitter to claim Clinton called him after the election, which Clinton himself shortly afterward confirmed, and that the former president "doesn't know much" about attracting voters in swing states. Clinton visited the 2010 World Cup in South Africa, and was an avid booster of the American team. He was also one of the proponents of the United States 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids. Clinton had been president when the U.S. hosted the 1994 World Cup.