AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE NATIONAL COUNCIL OF GEORGIA AND THE ABKHAZ PEOPLE’S COUNCIL

9 February, 1918

On 9 February 1918 the meeting of the presidium of the Executive Committee of the National Council of Georgia with participation of the representative of the Abkhaz People’s Council Alexander Shervashidze was held in Tbilisi. They discussed the issue on establishing the interrelations between Georgia and Abkhazia and the following provisions were elaborated:

1) To re-establish one united Abkhazia from the River Enguri to the River Bzinta, which will include Abkhazia itself and Samurzakano, i.e. the current whole Okrug of Sukhumi.

2) The form of a future political arrangement of the united Abkhazia shall be elaborated on the basis of national self-determination by the Constituent Assembly of Abkhazia elected with respect of democratic principles.

3) In case Abkhazia and Georgia will be willing to conclude agreement with other national states they take mutual obligation to have prior negotiations on this issue.

Clerk of the Chancellery of the People’s Council of Abkhazia: signed; sealed.

1 June 1920

(Avtandil Menteshashvili, Historical Preconditions of the Current Separatism in Georgia. Tb. 1998, p. 75/in Russian)