DECREE on the Relations between Abkhazia and Georgia adopted by the Presidium of the RKP(B) of the Caucasus Bureau.

16 November 1921

1. To consider the existence of independent Abkhazia non-purposeful with the economic and political point of view.

2.  To entrust comrade Eshba with the task of proposing the final conclusion on entering Abkhazia to the Georgian Federation on the basis of Agreement or as autonomous Okrug – to the RSFSR.

(Jemal Gamakharia, Badri Gogia, Abkhazia-Historical Region of Georgia. Tbilisi, 1997, p. 481-482/in Russian)