DECISION OF THE 11TH SESSION OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN OBLAST COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE 20TH CONVOCATION on the information of the first Deputy Chairman of the South Ossetian Oblispolcom Comr. Sanakoev M.G., the chairman of the working group on summarizing the amendments, changes, proposals and remarks to be included in the laws of the Georgian SSR, the Constitution of the Georgian SSR and the law of the Georgian SSR on election of the people’s deputies of the Georgian SSR and the People’s Deputies of the local councils of the Georgian SSR.

1. To endorse the information of Comr. Sanakoev M.G. on this issue.

To raise the issue before the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR on entering on the draft Constitution the amendments and changes proposed in the information.

2. To add the following sentence to Article 75 of the constitution of the Georgian SSR: “In the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast the State language is Ossetian”.

26 September 1989

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 188, 28 September 1989)