DECREE ISSUED BY THE ABKHAZ PEOPLE’S COUNCIL on
necessity to occupy
The Abkhazia people’s Council, having discussed
the political situation and taking into account that the Bolshevik anarchy
disintegrates Abkhazia for three months already actually takes resources from
Sochi and Tuapse Okrugs and also the fact, that the Bolshevik orientation is
based on the lack of food, which followed to the occupation of Tuapse Sea-port
by Bolsheviks cutting the communication with the North Caucasus through
detaining the cargo from the North Caucasus to the Black Sea regions of
Abkhazia and Georgia,
Decided:
to consider necessary the occupation of Sochi
and Tuapse Okrugs including the Tuapse Sea-port in order to establish the
sustainable order and Abkhazia and resolve the problem of food crisis in
Abkhazia, as well as in Georgia. To inform the Government of the Democratic Republic of Georgia and
the Commander of the Detachment Major-General Mazniev about this decision.
Original is signed.
Chairman of the National Council of
Abkhazia – V. A. Shervashidze
(Jemal Gamakharia, Badri Gogia,
Abkhazia-Historical Region of Georgia.