REZOLUTION OF THE PARLIAMENT OF GEORGIA on the fact of bombing the territory of Georgia by the military forces of the Russian federation

The Parliament of Georgia expresses its extreme indignation on the fact of bombing of the territory of Georgia on 23 August 2002 by the air forces of the Russian Federation, resulted in casualties of among the civilian population. Therefore, in order to guarantee security of the country and define principal directions of internal and foreign policy of Georgia

The Parliament of Georgia decrees:

1. Due to the intentional procrastination by the Russian federation of the process of withdrawal of Gudauta and other military bases deployed on the territory of Georgia, thereby breaching the Agreement of the OSCE 1999 Istanbul Summit, the executive authorities shall unilaterally determine the time-table of the withdrawal of military bases and take all necessary measures for its implementation.

2. Based on the repeated resolutions issued by the Parliament of Georgia, the executive authorities of Georgia shall immediately terminate the mandate of contingent of the Russian peacekeeping forces and take adequate measures to secure its withdrawal at the earliest possible date.

3. Due to absolute negligence on the part of the CIS of the repeated facts of military aggression of the Russian Federation against sovereign Georgia, to consider unacceptable further membership of Georgia in the CIS and calls on the President of Georgia to start all necessary procedures for denunciation of the Treaty on Georgia's membership in the CIS.

4. The executive authority of Georgia shall elaborate, at the earliest possible date, an action-plan of urgent and additional measures aimed at strengthening of defensive capacity and security of the country; for the financial support of this plan the President of Georgia shall submit to the Parliament amendments to the law "on State Budget of 2002" and in the process of elaboration of the state budget of 2003 give due consideration to the need of increase and prioritization of financing of the military forces of Georgia.

5. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia shall determine the scope of material and moral damage consequent of the bombing and carry out adequate measures in order to attain compensation in accordance with the international standards.

6. The Bureau of the Parliament of Georgia shall exercise control on the implementation of this Decree. 

The Chair of the Parliament of Georgia Nino Burjanadze

Tbilisi, 26 August 2002

(Archive of the Parliament of Georgia/in Georgian)