APPEAL OF THE GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT TO THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION, TO PRESIDENT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION MR. BORIS YELTSIN

The Supreme Soviet of the North Ossetian Republic is known to have made a decision on March 6 1993 recognizing the so-called Republic of South Ossetia illegally declared by Ossetian separatists on the territory of Georgia.

Though the above decision has no legal effect under the international law, it can interfere with the political resolution of processes ongoing on the Georgian territory, the foundations for which was laid by the Dagomyss agreement between Russia and Georgia of June 24 1992 and the statement of Mr. E. Shevardnadze and B.Yeltsin about the sides recognizing each other’s state sovereignty, territorial integrity and inviolability of borders.

Against this background, an attempt by a constituent entity of the Russian Federation to breach the territorial integrity of an independent neighboring state and the silence of the supreme bodies of the Russian authorities with regard to this fact are considered as violation of Georgia’s state sovereignty and promotion of instability in the Caucasus.

All this not only roughly violates the recognized principles of the international law but also contradicts Russia’s federal legislation and its international commitments.

The Parliament of Georgia hopes that the President and the Supreme Soviet of the Russian Federation would take effective measures to eliminate similar illegal acts, which would assist in establishing neighborly and peer relations between the two countries. Otherwise the Russian side would bear the full responsibility for possible adverse consequences.

Tbilisi, March 10 1993

(Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia, 1993, # 5, pp. 96-97)