DECISION TAKEN BY THE 12th   EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN OBLAST COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE 20th CONVOCATION on raising the status of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast

The 12th extraordinary session of the South Ossetian Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies decides:

1. To reorganize the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast into the South Ossetian Autonomous Republic.

To ask the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR and the Supreme Council of the USSR for consideration the issue on granting to the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast the status of the Autonomous Republic.

The First Deputy Chairman of the Ispolcom

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast M. Sanakoev.

Secretary of the Ispolcom

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast I. Kokoev.

10 November 1989

(Central State Archive of the newest history of Georgia, file 1165, reg. 8, p. 64)