EXTRACT FROM THE REZOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE PLENUM OF THE RKP (B) CK OF THE CAUCASUS BUREAU on the Political Situation of the Trans-Caucasus Republics

2-3 July 1921

1.  We shall recognize the necessity of the development of independence of the Caucasus Republics (Georgia, Azerbaijan, Armenia) through unconditional observance of the party relations between the Communist parties of these states and the Central Committee of the RKP.

(Jemal Gamakharia, Badri Gogia, Abkhazia-Historical Region of Georgia. Tbilisi, 1997, p. 475/in Russian)