DECISION OF THE JOINT MEETING OF THE ALL-LEVEL PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIA AND PUBLIC REPRESENTATIVES on setting up of the Committee on stabilization of the situation in the South Ossetia

Taking into account the aggravating situation in the South Ossetia due to barefaced aggression on the side on Georgia, and in order to increase effectiveness of the management aimed at overcoming the existing situation, the Meeting considers reasonable to accumulate all power into one organ and decides:

1. To set up Committee on stabilization of the situation in the South Ossetia composing of the following officials: Gassiev Z. N. – Chairman of the Committee; Khugaev G. G. – Deputy Chairman of the committee; Jioev I. G. – member of the Committee; Dzagoev E. P – member of the Committee; Zaseev F. M. - member of the Committee; Kabisov R. S. - member of the Committee; Kochiev S. I. - member of the Committee; Sanakoev M. G. - member of the Committee; Tedeev A. I. - member of the Committee; Chochiev B. E. - member of the Committee.

2. To empower the committee for stabilization of the situation in the South Ossetia with the whole state and executive authority on the territory of the South Ossetia until the complete settlement of the situation and final determination of the political status and restoration of the state structures.

3. The decisions of the Committee are final and binding on all the organizations, agencies, enterprises and farms.

4. To suspend the functioning of all supreme authorities of the South Ossetia and make them subordinated to the Committee on Stabilization of the Situation in the South Ossetia in time of its activity.

First Deputy Chairman of the Ispolcom

of the Council of People’s Deputies of the South Ossetia G. Khugaev

Secretary of the Ispolcom

of the Council of People’s Deputies of the South Ossetia B. Petoev

23 March 1991

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 29, 27 March 1991)