THE LAW OF GEORIGA on Abolishing Tskhinvali and Khornisi Districts (rayons)

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia decrees:

1. To abolish Tskhinvali district and attach its territory to Gori district.

2. To abolish Khornisi district and attach its territory to Kareli district.

3. To withdraw from Article 71 of the Constitution of the Republic of Georgia (Fundamental Law) the words ‘of Khornisi’ and ‘of Tskhinvali’.

The President of the Republic of Georgia Z. Gamsakhurdia

Tbilisi, 27 April 1991

(Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia, 1991, # 4, p. 82)