Does Unicode mandate a collation order?

I know this is off topic for this list, but does Unicode itself
mandate a character collation order? If it does so, where is it
defined?

Olga
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• Does Unicode mandate a collation order? by ольга крыжановская
• Re: Does Unicode mandate a collation order? by Karl Williamson
• Re: Does Unicode mandate a collation order? by Leon Timmermans
• Re: Does Unicode mandate a collation order? by ольга крыжановская
• Re: Does Unicode mandate a collation order? by Leon Timmermans
• Re: Does Unicode mandate a collation order? by Karl Williamson
• Re: Does Unicode mandate a collation order? by Tom Christiansen