On this day 34 years ago, on October 11, 1991 (September 4, 1991 lunar calendar), the Soviet Union decided to abolish the KGB. On October 11, 1991, the State Council of the Soviet Union met under the chairpersonship of President Gorbachev. The meeting decided to abolish the Soviet State Security Council (KGB) and form a new security agency on the basis of the original. According to the TASS news agency, the leaders of 10 republics including Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Ukraine participated in the meeting. According to reports, the meeting also discussed the draft treaty of the Economic Community and the draft agreement of sovereign states on guaranteeing the 1992 food supply, and exchanged views on the work to further improve the draft treaty of the alliance of sovereign states. At the beginning of the meeting, Gorbachev stressed that the meeting was "extremely important". "The patience of the people is limited. They still have the last ray of hope left, that the Council of State will adopt resolutions that meet the fundamental demands of the country and the people", he said. The meeting also reportedly decided to take measures to allocate a certain amount of broadcast time for each republic on CCTV. The meeting also endorsed the specific measures recently proposed by the Soviet president to achieve nuclear disarmament.