DECREE ISSUED
BY THE SOUTH OSSETIAN OBLAST COMMITTEE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF GEORGIA AND
ISPOLCOM OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN OBLAST COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF 4
SEPTEMBER 1989 on State Programme for
Development of the Ossetian Language
The South Ossetian Obcom of the Communist Party of
Georgia and the Ispolcom of the People’s Deputies of the Oblast decree:
1. To endorse the elaborated and supported by the
wider society of the Oblast the state programme for development of the Ossetian
language.
2. To entrust all the Party, Soviet, economic,
administrative and societal organizations of the Oblast with a task of ensuring
full and timely implementation of all measures set out in the programme of
development of the Ossetian language.
3. Within two months, all organizations to be
engaged in the implementation of the aforementioned Programme shall elaborate
and submit concrete proposals to the Ispolcom of the Oblast Council of the
People’s Deputies, as well as timetable of implementation of those proposals.
4. To raise the issue before the Central Committee
of the Communist Party of Georgia, Presidium of the Supreme Council and the
Council of Ministers of the Georgian SSR on consideration the relevant changes
in the paragraph 1 of the State Programme of Development of the Georgian
language pursuant to the law of the Georgian SSR “on the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast” and the programme of development of the Ossetian language,
and also on non-proliferation the Paragraphs 9 and 14 over the university
entrants from the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast.
5. To introduce for discussion the state programme
on development of the Ossetian language to the Session of the Oblast Council of
the people’s Deputies.
6. The secretariat of the Obcom and Ispolcom of
the Oblast Council of People’s Deputies shall exercise the control on the
implementation of this Decree.
Secretary of the South Ossetian Obcom of the
communist party of Georgia A. Chekhoev
Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Oblast Council of
the People’s Deputies A. Kachmazov
(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 170, 5 September
1989)