DECISION TAKEN BY THE 15TH (1) SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN SOVIET DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC on the attitude towards the election of Deputies to the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR

The decision of the 14th session of the South Ossetian Oblast Council of the People’s Deputies has reorganized the South Ossetian Autonomous oblast into the South Ossetian Soviet Democratic Republic.

The 15th (1) session of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Democratic Republic decides:

1. To declare illegal the functioning of the polling districts and stations, as well as participation of the population in the election of the Supreme Council of Georgia on the territory of the South Ossetia.

2. To ask the Central Electoral commission of Georgia for abolishment of the district electoral commissions created at the territory of the South Ossetia.

The Chairman of the Interim Executive Council

of the South Ossetian Soviet Democratic Republic T. Kulumbegov

The Secretary of the Interim Executive Council

of the South Ossetian Soviet Democratic Republic K. Kokoev

16 October 1990

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 202, 26 October 1990)