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 *(e) Ratification of alterations of boundaries between Union Republics;
 * (f) Ratification of the formation of new Territories and Regions and also of new Autonomous Republics within the Union Republics;
 * (g) Organisation of the defence of the U.S.S.R. and the direction of all the armed forces of the U.S.S.R.;
 * (h) Foreign trade on the basis of state monopoly;
 * (i) Safeguarding the security of the state;
 * (j) Determining the plans of national economy of the U.S.S.R.;
 * (k) Approval of the unified state budget of the U.S.S.R. as well as of the taxes and revenues which go to form the Union, Republican and local budgets;
 * (l) Administration of the banks, industrial and agricultural establishments and enterprises, and trading enterprises of all-Union importance;
 * (m) Administration of transport and communications;
 * (n) Direction of the monetary and credit system;
 * (o) Organisation of state insurance;
 * (p) Contracting and granting loans;
 * (q) Establishment of the basic principles of land tenure as well as of the use of mineral deposits, forests and waters;
 * (r) Establishment of the basic principles in the spheres of educational and public health;
 * (s) Organisation of a uniform system of national economic accounting;
 * (t) Establishment of the principles of labour legislation;
 * (u) Legislation governing the judicial system and judicial procedure; criminal and civil codes;
 * (v) Laws governing citizenship of the Union; laws governing the rights of foreigners;
 * (w) Issuance of all-Union acts of amnesty.

ARTICLE 15

The sovereignty of the Union Republics is restricted only within the limits set forth in Article 14 of the

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