DECISION TAKEN BY THE 16TH (2) SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC on the status of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic

Having discussed the draft of a new Union Treaty, the 16th (2) session of the Council of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic decides:

1. To ask repeatedly the Congress of the People’s Deputies of the USSR, The Supreme Council of the USSR for the recognition of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic, as a subject to the Federation and its consideration as a full-fledged Party when a new Union Treaty is being signed.

2. To entrust the People’s Deputies of the USSR from the South Ossetia with the task of informing the participants of the Fourth Congress of the People’s Deputies of the USSR about the current decision.

The Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Council

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic T. Kulumbegov

The Secretary of the Ispolcom of the Council

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic K. Kokoev

28 November 1990

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 226, 1 December 1990)