DECREE ISSUED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF ABKHAZIA on changing the name of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Abkhazia decrees:

To change the name of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia and call it the Republic of Abkhazia henceforth.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Abkhazia V. Ardzinba

23 July 1992

(Newspaper “Respublika Abkhazia”, # 138, 28 July 1992)