DECREE ISSUED BY THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE ABKHAZ ASSR on Creation of the State Security Service of Abkhazia

Due to the abolishment of the KGB of the USSR and its subordinate structures in the republic, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR Decrees:

1.  To abolish the KGB of Abkhazia;

2. To create the State Security Service of Abkhazia on the base of the KGB of Abkhazia;

3. The Council of Ministers of Abkhazia shall:

- elaborate the draft Regulations on the State Security Service of Abkhazia, its structural and staff arrangement and submit it to the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR.

- secure allocation of adequate appropriations and material resources for the functioning of the State Security Service of Abkhazia

4. The financing of the State Security Service of Abkhazia will be financed from the Republic budget of Abkhazia.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of Abkhazia V. Ardzinba

27 November 1991

(Newspaper “Respublika Abkhazia”, # 58, 13 December 1991)