DECREE ISSUED
BY THE OBLAST COMMITTEE OF ABKHAZIA, PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE
ABKHAZ ASSR AND THE COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF THE ABKHAZ ASSR on the state programme for development of
the Abkhaz language
The Abkhaz Oblast Committee of the Communist Party
of Georgia, Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of
the Abkhaz ASSR decree:
1. To endorse the elaborated and supported by the
wider society of the
2. To entrust all the Party, Soviet, economic,
administrative and societal organizations of the autonomous republic with a
task of ensuring full and timely implementation of all measures set out in the
programme of development of the Abkhaz language.
3. By the end of 1989, all organizations to be
engaged in the implementation of the aforementioned Programme shall elaborate
and submit concrete proposals to the Council of Ministers of the Abkhaz ASSR,
as well as timetable of implementation of those proposals.
4. Abkhaz Obcom of the Communist Party of Georgia,
Presidium of the Supreme Council and the Council of Ministers of the Abkhaz
ASSR shall exercise control on the implementation of this decree.
Abkhaz
Obcom of the Communist Party of
Presidium
of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR
Council
of Ministers of the Abkhaz ASSR
(Newspaper “Sovetskaya
Abkhazia”, # 202, 20 October 1989)