DECREE #1 ISSUED BY THE PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT OF THE UNION OF THE CAUCASUS MOUNTAIN PEOPLES

4 December, 1917

The Government of the Caucasus Mountainous People’s Union has discussed the ussue of the territory that is under its full jurisdiction and decrees:

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The state power of the Provisional Government of Union of Mountain Peoples fully applies to the territory of Daghestan, Khasan-Urtovsk, Grozny, Veden, Nazran, Vladikavkaz and Nalchik Okrug, as well as to the Kara-Nogait segment of Terek oblast and the territory of Nogaits and Turkmen of the Stavropol Gubernia.

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With regard of Zakatala and Sukhumi Okrug, the power of the Provisional Government of the Union applies to the national-cultural and political issues. The issue on swift and full application of the power of the Provisional Government of the Mountain peoples’ Union shall be submitted to the People’s Councils of Zakatala and Sukhumi for decision.

Deputy Chairman: Pr. R. Kapralov

Head of Justice Department: B. Dalgat

(Tamaz Nadareishvili, David Chitaia, Paata Davitaia, Problem of Separatisms in Georgia (History and Present), book 1. Tb., 2003, p. 178-179/in Georgian)