DECREE ISSUED BY THE COUNCIL OF NATIONALITIES OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE RSFSR on Situation Established in the North Ossetian SSR

DECREE ISSUED BY THE COUNCIL OF NATIONALITIES OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE RSFSR on Situation Established in the North Ossetian SSR

Having heard the information of the Commission on elaboration the measures aimed at stabilizing the situation in the region, the Council of Nationalities of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR decrees:

1. To take notice of the information on the situation in the North Ossetian SSR delivered by the Commission.

2. To address to the Presidents of the USSR, the RSFSR and the Republic of Georgia with request to set up intergovernmental commission on immediate settlement of political, legal, economic and other problems emerged due to current events in the region and elaborate the measures to exercise control over the implicit implementation of the achieved understandings and agreements.

3. To propose inclusion on the agenda of the 5th extraordinary Congress of the People’s Deputies of the RSFSR the issue “on implementation of the Resolution issued by the 3rd Extraordinary Congress of the people’s Deputies of the RSFSR “On the Situation in the South Ossetia”.

4. To advise to the Supreme Councils of the USSR and the RSFSR to speed up the process of adoption of the laws of the RSFSR “On Refugees and Displaced Persons” and “On Citizenship of the RSFSR”.

5. In case of failure in implementation of reached understandings and agreements, and taking into account the events in the South Ossetia, as well as increasing number of refugees to the North Ossetia running counter to the interests of the RSFSR, to address to the President of the RSFSR with a proposal to consider aforementioned issue.

6. The Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, within the ten-day term, shall consider the issue on caring out additional measures in order to grant material assistance to the North Ossetian SSR.

The Chairman of the Council of Nationalities

of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR R. G. Abdulatypov

16 October 1991

(Bulletin of the Congress of the People’s Deputies of the RSFSR and the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, 1991, # 44, p. 1715)