DECREE ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENT OF
On
This zero version was conducive for defining a political status of
Abkhazia within the Georgian state laying foundation for genuinely democratic
elections, as has been repeatedly underlined in the resolutions of UN, after
the hundreds of thousands of persons driven out from Abkhazia as a result of
ethnic cleansing returned to their homes.
Nevertheless, being deprived of any legitimacy and elected through the
principle of national superiority and having preliminarily guaranteed
parliamentary majority, the Gudauta separatist group of deputies, elected by
the tiny minority of the population in 1991 to the Supreme Council of Abkhazian
ASSR continued, in grossly illegal manner, to act on behalf of the supreme
body of the Autonomous Republic, moreover, it adopted the so called
Constitution, elected a President, and declared the Abkhazian region a
sovereign state and subject of the International law.
The Deputies of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz SSR, representing the
best and genuine interests of multinational population of Abkhazia, even prior
to the military conflict, as mark of protest against the anti-constitutional
activities of the Gudauta separatist group, suspended their activities in the
Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR. Taking the aforementioned into
consideration, in January 1995, they resumed activities and appealed to the
Parliament of Georgia with a request of endorsing their competence.
The Parliament of Georgia believes, that the vacuum of power existing in
Abkhazia, allows the separatist group to continue its criminal, usurper-like
activities and rules out the possibility of return of refugees, holding free
elections and factual restoration of jurisdiction of
In accordance with paragraph 3 of the article 3 of the law of the
1. To declare those Deputies
of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR elected in 1991 and representing the
best and genuine interests of the vast majority of Abkhazia and who did not
take part in the anti-constitutional activities of the Gudauta separatist
group-the representatives of the supreme representative and legislative body of
the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia.
2. The Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR shall carry out its activities
in conformity with the Constitution of the Abkhaz ASSR adopted in 1978 and
legislative acts that did not contradict to the legislation of Georgia; to
create the necessary legal basis that would guarantee normal functioning of all
structures of the Autonomous Republic and creation of relevant normative basis
for holding elections in Abkhazia.
3. The Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR shall be entitled with the
right to participate in all negotiations on Abkhazia.
To consider null and void any treaty, agreement concluded or statement
made, without consent of a delegation made of members of the Supreme Council of
the Abkhazian ASSR.
4. To request member –states of the UN, and international organizations
to refrain from establishment of any kind of relationship with the
aggressive-separatist regime (the Gudauta group), perpetrators of ethnic
cleansing-genocide, save for those officials who participate in the negotiation
process, mediators and observers, that are to be provided with adequate
conditions for carrying out peacemaking efforts aimed at settlement of the
conflict in Abkhazia.
5. This decree shall come into force immediately upon publication.
Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia V.
Goguadze
(Bulletin
of the Parliament of Georgia, 1995, # # 23-26, p. 79-81)