DECREE ISSUED
BY THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF ABKHAZIA on
Dislocation of the Military Units, Establishments of Border-guard and Internal
Forces, and Navy Forces and on Changes of Order of Their Functioning on the
Presidium of the Supreme Council of Abkhazia decrees:
1. Military units, establishments of border-guard
and internal forces, and navy forces shall
be dislocated on the
Their further presence in Abkhazia shall be solely
and completely under the competence of the Supreme Council of Abkhazia and
shall be determined by political agreements and legal norms.
Any legal acts, regardless the issuing agency,
opposing this order and aimed at undermining of the defense power of the
republic, destabilization of the military and political situation in the region
and breaching the requirements of the Constitution of the republic, shall be
considered invalid.
2. Considering the fact that the bodies of local
defense management (commissariats, civil defense, technical defense societies),
as well as military divisions No 5482, 3697 and their property, equipment,
weapons, premises, ammunition depots and
others shall be assigned under the jurisdiction of the republic pursuant to the
Clause 11, Constitution of Abkhazia.
At the time being the staff of the aforementioned
military structures is not a subject of reorganization from Abkhazia’s side and
shall be regulated in according of the interstate agreements until the final
settlement of the matter.
3. Officials of the commissariats, civil defense
headquarters and military-technical societies of Abkhazia have no longer any
right to pass or annihilate their property pursuant the previous procedures
without relevant instruction of the Council of Ministers of Abkhazia.
4. The Abkhaz Council of Ministers shall determine
the order of the execution of par 2 and 3 of this Decree.
5. The Military Commissar, Head of the Civil
Defense Headquarters, Chairman of the Military-technical Society (DOSAAF) shall
submit their proposals on the staff-organization structure under their
subordination to the Abkhaz Supreme Council before
6 The present Resolution comes into force from the
moment of its signing.
Chairman of the Supreme Council of Abkhazia V. Ardzinba
(T. Nadareihvili, Genocide in Abkhazia, Tb., 1996, p. 37-38/in Russian)