DECREE ISSUED BY THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE GEORGIAN SSR on Decision Taken on 20 September 1990 by
the Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies of the Autonomous Oblast of the
South Ossetia
Having addressed the decision taken by the Oblast Council of the Peoples’
Deputies of the Autonomous Oblast of the South Ossetia on Sovereignty and
Political Status of the South Ossetia, the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR
regards the aforementioned decision, aimed at changing the nation-state and
administrative-territorial arrangement of the Georgian SSR, violation of the
state sovereignty of Georgia, as an absolutely groundless step and constitutes
the gross violation of constitutions of the Georgian SSR and the USSR, as well
as violation of the law on the Peoples’ Deputies of the Autonomous Oblast of
the South Ossetia.
At the same time, the session was held under intense pressure of those
persons who are not deputies and in gross violation of the constitutional and
procedural norms. Such a decision, taken in gross violation of the Constitution
of the Republic is groundless and unacceptable not only in legal terms, but
also runs counter to the best interests of all people residing in Georgia and
may provoke inter-ethnic tension.
The Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR decrees:
1. To declare the decision taken on
Peoples’ Deputies of the
Autonomous Oblast of the South Ossetia on Sovereignty and Political Status of
the South Ossetia as null and void and having no legal force.
2. To entrust the Oblast
Council of the Peoples’ Deputies of the Autonomous Oblast of the South Ossetia
and its Executive Committee, with a task of taking all necessary measure aimed
at securing strict adherence to the requirements of the Constitutions of the
USSR and the Georgian SSR and the law on the Peoples’ Deputies of the
Autonomous Oblast of the South Ossetia;
3. Conclusions of the special
Committee on the political status of the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia -
set up on
Chairman of the Presidium of
the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR G.
Gumbaridze
Secretary of the Presidium of
the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR V.
Kvaratskhelia
(Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR, 1990, # 9, p. 9)