DECREE ISSUED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE NORTH OSSETIAN SSR on Appeal of the Session of the South Ossetian Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies to the Supreme Council of the North Ossetian SSR

Having discussed the appeal of the Session of the South Ossetian Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies of 13 September 1991, considering a new wave of escalation of the violence in the South Ossetia and urgent need to protect the population against deportation and genocide, the Supreme Council of the North Ossetian SSR decrees:

1. To address to the President of the RSFSR and the Supreme Council of the RSFSR for securing the fundamental human rights and carrying out immediate measures for putting an end to the bloodshed in the South Ossetia.

2. To ask the President and the Supreme Council of the RSFSR for considering the appeal of the South Ossetian Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies of 1st September 1991.

3. To ask the 5th extraordinary Congress of the People’s Deputies of the RSFSR for inclusion on the agenda 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 entrust the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the North Ossetian SSR with a task of setting up the delegation, composing of the representatives of the South Ossetia, aimed at entering into negotiations with the state structures of the Republic of Georgia .  The principal task at an initial stage of the negotiation shall be achievement of agreement on immediate elimination of violations in the territory of the autonomous oblast.

5.  To address to the world community with the appeal to render the assistance to the South Ossetia in order to stop the genocide and settle the conflict; the Supreme Council of the North Ossetian SSR urges the United Nations to send the observers and experts to the South Ossetia and the regions of Georgia in order to investigate the cases of gross violations of the human rights.

The Chairman of the Supreme Council of the South Ossetian SSR A. Galazov

22 October 1991

(Newspaper “Youzhnaia Ossetia”, # 158, 7 November 1991)