DECREE
ISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENT OF
As the Referendum held on 23 November 1996 among
the refugee and internally displaced persons from the Autonomous Republic of
Abkhazia demonstrated, these people unambiguously and unanimously condemned the
so called elections, organized in the same day as Referendum by the Abkhaz
separatist regime, while the Parliament of Georgia, acting on the basis of the
Constitution of Georgia and norms of international law, declared the results of
these elections as illegal and null and void. Bearing in mind the fact that
currently substantial part of the
The Parliament of Georgia decrees:
To expand the mandate of the
Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Georgia until factual restoration
of the jurisdiction of
Chairman of the Parliament of Georgia Zurab Zhvania
(Bulletin of the Parliament of Georgia, Tbilisi, 1997, #
# 1-2 (33-34/7), p. 2)