DECISION OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE SOVIET REPUBLIC OF SOUTH OSSETIA on declaring legally invalid the delimitation of borders between South Ossetia and Russia.

Articles 1, 3 and 4 of the Agreement of 7 May 1920 between Russia and Georgia recognize the right of all nations of the Caucasus region ruled by governors to the self-identification, up to creating the independent states. In the given Agreement, likewise in other treaty-legal acts, there is no judicial base for the borders between Russia and Georgia. Since 25 February 1921 – the date when the Soviet power was established in Georgia – the arbitrary legal informal administrative-territorial borders have been established between Russia and Georgia.

Under the Decrees of the Supreme council of Georgia of 18 November 1989, 9 March 1990 and 20 June 1990 the Soviet structures and legal norms established during the Soviet power were declared null and void.

The Supreme Council of the Soviet Republic of South Ossetia decides:

To declare the state sovereignty of the Soviet Republic of South Ossetia.

According to the Agreement of 7 May 1920 between Russia and Georgia and the law of the USSR “On separation of power between the center and the subjects of Federation”, the USSR, the RSFSR and the Republic of Georgia shall be considered as the guarantors of sovereignty of the Soviet Republic of South Ossetia.

To make an appeal to the Supreme Council of the USSR, to the Supreme Council of the RSFSR and to the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia on non-recognition of the border between South Ossetia and Russia along the segment dividing now South Ossetia from North Ossetia.

Chairman of the Supreme Council

of the Soviet Republic of South Ossetia B. G. Kulumbegov

13 December 1990

(Conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Documents 1989-2006 (Supplement to “Kavkazskie Sborniki”, edition #1). Collected and commented by M. A. Volkhonski, B. A. Zakharov, N. Y. Silaev. – Moscow, 2008, p. 194-195/in Russian)