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 Autonomous Republic the State programme for Development of the Abkhaz language.

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 Georgia

Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR

Council of Ministers of the Abkhaz ASSR

10 October 1989

(Newspaper “Sovetskaya Abkhazia”, # 202, 20 October 1989)