DECISION TAKEN BY THE JOINT SESSION OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE NORTH OSSETIAN SSR AND THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE SOUTH OSSETIA

Taking into consideration the critical situation consequent to the armed operations against the peaceful population of the South Ossetia, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the North Ossetian SSR and the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the South Ossetian Republic decide:

1. To consider necessary immediate meeting of the leaders of the South Ossetia, North Ossetia and Georgia in order to establish cease-fire and settle the issue at quadripartite negotiations with participation of the Russian Federation;

2. To entrust Biragov Y.G. and Chochyev A.R. with a task of determining the representatives from the Russian Federation, Georgia, North and South Ossetia to the quadripartite negotiations as observers in order to secure effective control over the implementation of the paragraph 1 of this decree.

3. To entrust Kulov L.M. with a task of negotiating with the leadership of Georgia and Russian Federation an issue on establishment of joint press-center for objective dissemination of the information regarding the situation in the region.

4. To ask the President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin for speeding up the implementation of measures aimed at stabilizing the situation in the South and North Ossetia in conformity with the Resolutions of the III and IV Congress of the People’s deputies of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the Supreme council of the North Ossetian SSR A. Galazov

Deputy Chairman of the Supreme council of the South Ossetia A . Chochyev

8 June 1992

(Newspaper “Severnaia Ossetia”, #110, 10 June 1992)