DECREE ISSUED BY THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GEORGIA, THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE GEORGIAN SSR AND THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE GEORGIAN SSR on the State Programme of the Georgian Language

The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR, and the Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR decree:

1. To endorse the elaborated and supported by the wider society the State Programme of the Georgian Language.

2. To entrust all the Party, Soviet, economic, administrative and societal organizations of the Republic with a task of ensuring full and timely implementation of all measures envisaged by the State Programme of the Georgian Language.

3. Within two months, all organizations to be engaged in the implementation of the aforementioned Programme shall elaborate and submit concrete proposals to the Council of Ministers of Georgia, as well as timetable of implementation of those proposals.

4. To entrust the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR and the Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR with a task of exercising control over the implementation of this decree.

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Georgia G. Gumbaridze

Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR O. Cherkezia

Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR N. Chitanava

15 August 1989.

(Newspaper “Comunisti”, # 196, 25 August 1989)