DECISION TAKEN BY THE 14TH SESSION OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN OBLAST COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE 20TH CONVOCATION on the laws valid in the territory of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast.

The 14th session of the South Ossetian Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies of the 20th convocation notes that the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR at its sessions in November 1989 and in 9 March and 20 July of 1990 adopted the resolutions on declaration of the restoration of the state independence. They recognize the Treaty of 7 May 1920 between Georgia and Russia as the only legal instrument for the existence of the Republic of Georgia.

Establishment of the Soviet Power in Georgia in February of 1921 is assessed as the overthrowing of the legal power of the Georgian Democratic Republic. All existing state structures and agreements concluded after February 1921 are declared null and void, including Union Treaty of 30 December 1922 on establishment of the USSR.

As the South Ossetian autonomous oblast has been established after February 1921, and at the same time pursuant to the aforementioned resolutions of the Supreme Council of Georgia it is declared as illegal and void, the Constitution of the USSR and the Law of the USSR in accordance of Article 74 are only legal guarantors for existence of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast.

Based upon aforementioned the 14th Session of the South Ossetian Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies of the 20th convocation decides:

To recognize the Constitution of the USSR and other legal acts of the USSR as the only instruments having legal force at the territory of the South Ossetian autonomous oblast.

Chairman of the Ispolcom

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast F. Zaseev

Secretary of the Ispolcom

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast I. Kokoev

20 September 1990

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 203, 27 October 1990)