DECISION MADE BY THE SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF ALL LEVELS OF SOUTH OSSETIA

In order to implement the Decree of 7 January 1991 issued by the President of the USSR “on certain legal acts adopted in December 1990 in the Georgian SSR”, the session of the Council of People’s Deputies of all levels of South Ossetia decides:

1. To endorse and adopt for strict implementation the Decree of the president of the USSR of 7 January 1991.

2. Giving the fact that Supreme Council and the Government of Georgia categorically refuse to fulfill the Decree of the President of the USSR, to ask comrade M.S. Gorbachev for issuing instruction to the central authorities on its immediate implementation.

3. In order to prevent further exacerbation of the situation and bloodshed, to ask to the President of the USSR for announcing the state of emergency on the whole territory of South Ossetia and for implementing it through the troops of the Ministry of Interior of the USSR.

4. To consider necessary to ask the Prosecutor General of the USSR to send the investigative group to South Ossetia for investigation of offenses and evaluation of the damage.

Chairman of the Session of the Council

of People’s Deputies of all levels of South Ossetia Z. Gassiev

Secretary B. Plieva

18 January 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. 195-196/in Russian)