EXTRACT FROM THE MINUTES N 21 OF THE SESSION OF THE TRANS-CAUCASUS CENTRAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of 14 December 1925

Heard: Circular note of the Central Executive Committee of the USSR of 27 November on reorganization of the executive organs of the autonomous oblasts in compliance with their constitutions. (Presidium of the CEC of the USSR. Chapter 29; Article 3)

Decided: Confirming the fact that establishment of the central executive committees in South Ossetian (Georgian SSR) and Nagorny Karabakh (Azerbaijanis SSR) autonomous oblasts has no legal ground in the relevant legal acts of Georgian SSR and Azerbaijanis SSR, as also with respect of the realities of the Trans-Caucasus, the reorganization of the central executive committees of the aforementioned autonomous oblasts shall be deemed as undesirable and untimely.

Secretary of the CEC of the Trans-Caucasus A. Shaverdov

Tbilisi, the Palace

(Central State Historical Archive of the Nearest Future of Georgia, f. 607, desc.1. file 754, p.22)