EXTRACT FROM THE GAZETTE OF THE SITTINGS OF THE GOVERNMENT OF THE DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA

18 September 1919

Heard:

Report by the Chairman of the Commissariat of Abkhazia: on the delegation sent by the  Abkhaz People’s Council and its further activities.

Decided:

1.  The Constitutional Commission sent by the  Abkhaz People’s Council shall meet the Presidium of the Constituent Assembly and ask for discussion of the Constitution of Abkhazia at the earliest possibility.

2.  To inform the Chairman of the  Abkhaz People’s Council that the representatives of independent group may participate in the work of the Constitutional Commission by the deliberative vote, as Georgian Government is not authorized to hold the negotiations with the individuals having no authorization from the People’s Council.  At the same time the Government considers necessary to hear them in order to get the comprehensive idea about vision of the population and different groups of Abkhazia.

For the Chairman of the Government N. Ramishvili

Head of Government Chancellery – K. Japaridze

Secretary – Didebulidze

Authentic with original: clerk (signed)

(Central State Historical Archive of Georgia, f. 1938, desc. 1, file 294, p. 23)