(AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE GOVERNMENT OF THE
DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA AND THE ABKHAZ PEOPLE’S COUNCIL of 11 June 1918)
AGREEMENT BETWEEN GEORGIA AND ABKHAZIA
of 11 June 1918
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The Abkhaz People’s Council authorized its representatives
R. I. Kakuba, G. D. Tumanov,
V. G. Gurjua and G. D. Ajamov
to conclude the following Agreement:
The Government of the Democratic
Republic of Georgia in the person of its plenipotentiary representatives – the
Minister of Justice Sh.A. Alekseev-Meskhiev
and the Minister of Agriculture N. G. Khomeriki, and
the Abkhaz People’s Council in the person of its plenipotentiary
representatives Razhden Kakuba,
George Tumanov, Vasiliy Gurdjua and George Ajamov, concluded
the following Agreement for development and supplementing the Agreement
concluded on 9 February of 1918:
1) The concluding agreement shall be reviewed
by the National Congress of Abkhazia which will decide final political
arrangement and the destiny of Abkhazia, as well as the interrelations between
Georgia and Abkhazia;
2) The plenipotentiary representative of the
Abkhaz People’s Council is present at the Government of the Democratic Republic
of Georgia with whom the Georgian Government considers the issues relating to
Abkhazia;
3) Internal management of Abkhazia is exercised
by the Abkhaz People’s Council;
4) In foreign affairs,
5) The credits and assets, necessary for the
management of Abkhazia shall be assigned from the resources of the Democratic
Republic of Georgia at disposal of the Abkhaz People’s Council;
6) For the rapid development of the
revolutionary order and organization of a sustainable power, the Government of
the Democratic Republic of Georgia sends the detachment of the Red Guardia to
assist the Abkhaz People’s Council until
it’s in need;
7) The Abkhaz People’s Council shall organize
the military units; the necessary equipment, uniforms and resources for these
units shall be provided by the Democratic Republic of Georgia at disposal of
the Council;
8) The Abkhaz People’s Council is carrying out
the social reforms on the basis if laws adopted by the Trans-Caucasus Seim taking into account the local specifics;
This document is taken as information and will
be added to the Agreements concluded between the National Council of Georgia
and the Democratic Republic of Georgia on one side and the Abkhaz People’s
Council – on the other.
The original is signed by: N. G. Khomeriki, Sh.V. Alekseev-Meskhiev, Razhden Kakuba, George Ajamov, clergyman
George Tumanov.
(Avtandil Menteshashvili, Historical Preconditions of the Current
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