On December NUMBER@1 , NUMBER@2 , alongside NUMBER@3 MISC@1 countries , the ORGANIZATION@1 , and four MISC@2 countries , twelve of the fifteen soviet republics signed the ORGANIZATION@2 in the LOCATION@1 as sovereign states .

It may be note that twelve out of the fifteen republics of the LOCATION@2 had signed an international agreement -LRB- ORGANIZATION@2 -RRB- in the LOCATION@1 on 17th December NUMBER@2 .
