EXTRACT FROM THE RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE ABKHAZ PEOPLE’S COUNCIL on
negotiations on relations with the Democratic Republic of Georgia
2 June 1918
Since collapse of the Trans-Caucasus Federative
Republic and declaring
the independence of Georgia,
Abkhazia has lost the legal ground for relation with Georgia. The detachment of the Trans-Caucasus Red
Guardia, which, being outside of its own country, currently acts as the troop
of Georgia,
but the whole power practically is in its hands. On June 2 of this year the Abkhaz People’s Council decided: due
to the established situation the People’s Council takes the whole power within
Abkhazia. Taking into account the fact,
that vital important interests of Abkhazia and Georgia dictate to both sides to
have close collaboration in arranging the state power in Abkhazia, as well as
in Georgia
without any violation of the people’s rights from the side of neighbours.
Proceeding from the aforementioned the People’s Council decrees: to
submit the friendly application to the National Council of Georgia on
assistance in organizing the state power in Abkhazia retaining the Red Guardia
Detachment in Sukhumi
As for the decrees of the Georgian Government
issued on the territory
of Abkhazia on
administrating the justice on behalf of Georgia and the Decree on
Mobilization, as a matter of fact they may lay ground to tension between two
people and jeopardize the best interests of Georgia and Abkhazia. The Abkhaz People’s Council believes that
the Government of the Republic
of Georgia will abolish
the aforementioned Decrees and refrain from the similar acts in a future.
In order to clear out these issues with the
Government of the Republic of Georgia, the Abkhaz People’s Council sends the
following representatives to Tbilisi:
the engineer R. I. Kakubava and its delegates being
currently in Tbilisi V. G. Gurjua, G. D. Ajamov, G. D. Tumanov and
empowers them with the right to hold the negotiations.
(Ruslan Khodjaa, Documents and Materials of the Abkhaz People’s Council 1918-1919. Sukhum, 1999, p. 7-8/in Russian)