AKIPRESS.COM - Several representatives of the coalition of the Ukrainian Parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, have introduced a draft law on Ukraine's leaving the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), the parliament's press service reported on Thursday.

According to the statement, the draft proposal on Ukraine exiting the CIS was registered in the Ukrainian Parliament on Thursday. The full text of the bill has not been published.

According to the Verkhovna Rada website, the head of the Batkivshchyna (Fatherland) party Yulia Tymoshenko, the representative of the People's Front Party Vyacheslav Kyrylenko and the commissioner of the Ukrainian President on the Affairs of Crimean Tatars Mustafa Dzhemilev are among the proposal's authors.

Established on December, 1991, the CIS currently has nine full members — Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan — and two participating states –Turkmenistan and Ukraine.