DECISION OF
THE MEETING OF DEPUTIES OF THE OBLAS, CITY, DISTRICT, SETTLEMENT AND VILLAGE
COUNCILS OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN AUTONOMOUS OBLAST on implementation of the Decree of the President of the USSR of 7
January 1991 and the Decree issued by the Supreme Council of the USSR of 1
April 1991
The
meeting of the all-level Deputies points to the grave social and political
situation established in the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast for the latest
2-3 years. The tension went to mount in
November 1989 and later in March and June of 1990. The
Proceeding from the aforementioned the
supreme legislative organ of
Thereupon,
on
However,
by the Decree of the President of the
Tragic
events have been developed since 5-6 January of 1991 with the detachment of
Georgian militia formations to Tskhinvali.
The situation was aggravated by the fact that neither the Republic of
The
lack of legal executive power in the
In condition
of state of emergency, when the most of the territory of Tskhinvali and Znauri
districts are occupied, disastrous earthquake dilapidated hundreds of
enterprises and farms, thousands of houses and tens of villages of the Oblast
are destroyed and the village Java is completely devastated; the Meeting of the
Deputies considers necessary immediate implementation of the Decree of the
President of the USSR of 7 January 1991 and the Decree issued by the Supreme
Council of the USSR of 1 April 1991.
Proceeding
from the aforementioned and deeply concerned at the further developments in the
region, striving for the termination of the inter-ethnic opposition of the
Ossetian and Georgian people, the Meeting of the all-level People’s Deputies of
the
1. To declare null and void the Decree issued by
the 14th Session of the Council of People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast of 20 September 1990 “on reorganization of the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast into South Ossetian Soviet Democratic Republic” in order to
implement the Decree of the President of the USSR of 7 January 1991 “On certain
legal acts adopted by the Georgian SSR” and the Decree issued by the Supreme
Council of the USSR of 1 April 1991 “on situation in the South Ossetian
Autonomous Oblast”.
2.
To restore the functioning of the institution of state authority and management
of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast that was in force until September 1990.
3.
Taking into consideration established extreme social and economic situation in
the Oblast and the state of emergency in Tskhinvali and Java districts, the
authority of the supreme state organ shall be laid on the Meeting of the
all-level Councils of the People’s Deputies until the next elections of the
people’s deputies to the local councils.
4.
Executive committee of the Council of the People’s Deputies of the South
Ossetian Autonomous Oblast shall exercise the executive and administrative
authority between the meetings.
5.
Based on the will of the people of the South Ossetia expressed at the
Referendum of the USSR on 17 March 1991 on preservation and renewal of the
USSR, the Meeting considers necessary to submit a petition to the Supreme
Council of the USSR on independent participation of the Oblast in the Union Treaty
authorizing him to sign the Treaty as a subject of Federation. For the purpose
of preparation and signing of the Treaty to set up plenipotentiary delegation
of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast comprising of: 1. Gassiev Z.I. - Head
of Delegation; 2. Kochiev G.V., 3. Khubulov V.N., 4. Khugaev G.G., 5. Chekhoev
A.G.
6. To ask the Supreme Council of the
7.
This Decision shall be published in the Oblast press and the Supreme Council of
Georgia shall be familiarized with this Decree.
The
chairman of the Meeting
Z. Gassiev
Secretary
of the Meeting L. Ostaeva
4 May 1991
(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 41, 16 May
1991)