DECISION TAKEN BY THE 14TH SESSION OF THE OBLAST COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN AUTONOMOUS OBLAST OF THE 20TH CONVOCATION on reorganization of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast into the Soviet Democratic Republic of South Ossetia

The 14th Session of the Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast of the 20th convocation decides:

1. To reorganize the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast into the Soviet Democratic Republic of South Ossetia.

2. To appeal to the Supreme Council of the USSR to include the Soviet Democratic Republic of South Ossetia within the USSR as an independent subject.

3. To appeal to the Union Republics of the USSR to conclude the union-treaties on friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance with the Soviet Democratic Republic of South Ossetia.

Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Council

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

Secretary of the Ispolcom of the Council

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

20 September 1990

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 180, 22 September 1990)