RESOLUTION OF THE PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY-PARLIAMENT
OF THE REPUBLIC OF ABKHAZIA on legal assessment
of the annexation of Abkhazia by
The Parliament of
the
Making the legal
assessment of the events of 1918-1921 in Abkhazia, the People’s Assembly of
Abkhazia resolves:
1. To take into
consideration the Historical Note on Legal Assessment of the Annexation of
Abkhazia by
2. To acknowledge the deployment of Georgian Armed
Forces in Abkhazia in May-June 1918 as:
a) act of military
expansion and aggression against the sovereign state of Abkhazia and its people;
b) incursion of the
armed forces of the neighbor state into the territory of another state;
â) act of illegal intervention and occupation being in
violation of the international law.
3. To denounce the Treaty
of June 8-11, 1918, between the People’s Assembly of Abkhazia and the
Constituent Assembly of Georgia as forced on Abkhazia under the circumstances of
occupation and following annexation of Abkhazia by
4. To consider that
the violent actions of the Government and Armed Forces of Georgia in Abkhazia led
to the dissolution of the legitimate authority, People’s Council of Abkhazia, on
August 15, 1918, and the total military and political annexation of Abkhazia.
5. To recognize as illegitimate
the State institutions established in Abkhazia by Georgian military
administration in the course of the occupation of Abkhazia by
6. To void the Act
on the Autonomy of Abkhazia of March 20, 1919, adopted in violation of all previous
interstate documents under the pressure of external forces and against the background
of occupation and annexation.
7. To denounce the Statute
on the Autonomous Government of Abkhazia, unilaterally adopted by the Constituent
Assembly of Georgia and aimed at the final annexation of Abkhazia and its
integration with
8. To recognize as void
Article 107 of the Constitution of the Democratic Republic of Georgia of
February 21, 1921, announcing the autonomy of Abkhazia, as adopted against the
will of the people of Abkhazia during the occupation and annexation of the
9. To acknowledge
that Abkhazia, occupied by
10. To acknowledge
that the people of sovereign Abkhazia continued the uncompromising struggle
against the Georgian occupants, the annexation and dictatorship of the Georgian
Government throughout the occupation period of 1918-1921. The three-year
occupation and the annexation of Abkhazia ended after the Georgian invaders were
driven out of Abkhazia. A new legitimate government, established in March 1921,
was recognized by the people of Abkhazia and the neighbor states, including
N. Ashuba,
Speaker, People’s
Assembly of the
Sukhum, 9 August 2006.
(Respublika Abkhazia, #91,
15-16 August 2006)