DECISION OF THE MEETING
OF THE ABKHAZ PEOPLE REPRESENTATIVES IN THE
Pursuant to the resolution of the XVII Congress
of the CPSU, XIX Party Conference, requirements of the Central Committee of the
CPSS, and also of the recommendations of the Central Committee of the party on
organizing wide discussion of proposal regarding incoming Plenum of the CC CPSU
on interethnic relations, more than 30 000 people have gathered in the
historical village of Lykhny of the Abkhaz ASSR. The meeting adopted the Appeal to the
Secretary General of the CC CPSS M.S. Gorbachev, to the Chairman of the Council
of Ministers of the USSR N.I. Rizhkov and to the heads of several scientific
centers.
The meeting has noted that in March of 1921
that Abkhazia declared itself as independent socialist republic, informing
Lenin and Stalin about this decision.
However, as a result of Stalin’s influence, the higher status of the
Abkhaz SSR gradually was brought down to the lower one (Abkhaz SSR – in 1921,
Treaty SSR of Abkhazia – 1922, Abkhaz ASSR - 1931), while the modification of
the state development of other nations went to the ascending line. At the same time the Constitutional rights of
the autonomous republic have been subjected to the permanent and purposeful
erosion.
At the current stage in some political,
economic, legal, cultural and other aspects of relations with the Georgian SSR
the Abkhaz ASSR in fact enjoys the rights of a city or district administration
level.
The experience of existence of the
Given the aforementioned facts, and also the
requirements of the participants of the meeting expressed in the course of
consideration of the present Appeal, the meeting decrees:
1. To endorse the text of the appeal to the
Secretary General of the CC CPSS M.S. Gorbachev, to the Chairman of the Council
of Ministers of the USSR N.I. Rizhkov and to the heads of several scientific
centers.
2. To
ask to the CC CPSU, to the Supreme Council of the
3. To
reconsider the multilayer system of state entities that undermines the Lenin’s
principle of the equality of the nations of the
Adopted at the meeting of the
representatives of the Abkhaz people.
Lykhny, 18
March 1989
(Conflicts in Abkhazia and