DECREE ISSUED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE RSFSR on the course of implementation of Decree issued by the 5th Extraordinary Congress of the People’s Deputies of the RSFSR “on the situation in the South Ossetia”

Having heard the information of the Government of the RSFSR upon the request of the Deputies Gurevich L. B.; Zasukhina S. F.; Lisina V. P. and Shuiykov V.A. on the course of implementation of Decree issued by the 5th Extraordinary Congress of the People’s Deputies of the RSFSR on the situation in the South Ossetia, the Supreme council of the RSFSR decrees:

1. To make a note of the lack of efficient measures on the side of the government of the RSFSR in realization of the decisions of the third and fifth extraordinary Congress of the People’s Deputies of the RSFSR concerning the situation in the South Ossetia.

2. The Government of the RSFSR shall report the Supreme Council of the RSFSR before 25 December 1991 on implementation of the Resolutions of the Congresses, as well as on political, economic and organizational measures aimed at conflict settlement in the South Ossetia, human rights protection and return of refugees to the places of their permanent residence.

First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR R. Khasbulatov

12 December 1991

(Bulletin of the Congress of the People’s Deputies of the RSFSR and the Supreme Council of the RSFSR, 1991, # 52, p. 2119-2120)