DECISION MADE AT THE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF SOUTH OSSETIAN AUTONOMOUS OBLAST on public-political situation in South Ossetia

Having considered the public-political situation in South Ossetia and guided by the will of people expressed in the Appeal, the extraordinary Session of the Council of people’s deputies decided:

1. To urge to the Supreme Council of the RSFSR to consider the issue of reunification of South Ossetia with Russia.

2. To endorse and adopt the text of the Appeal on this issue (attached)

3. To send the text of the Appeal and the present Decision to the Supreme Council of the RSFSR and to the President of the Russian Federation B.N. Yeltsin.

4. To inform the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia about the present Decision.

Chairman of the Session A. Parastaev

Secretary of the Session B. Plieva

1 September 1991

(Conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Documents 1989-2006 (Supplement to “Kavkazskie Sborniki”, edition #1). Collected and commented by M. A. Volkhonski, B. A. Zakharov, N. Y. Silaev. – Moscow, 2008, p. 201/in Russian)