RESOLUTION VI CONGRESS OF THE SOVIETS OF ABKHAZIA about the changes in the Constitution

11 February 1931

Chairman . . . (Bagapsh - author).  On the issue of the approved agenda the floor is given to comrade Lagvilava.

Lagvilava: between the V and VI congresses of the Soviets of Abkhazia the certain constitutional changes have been introduced.  The Congress shall approve these changes.

First of all the title of the Constitution of the Abkhaz SSR shall be as follows:

“The Basic Law of the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia”.

In Article 2 and 7, wherever it’s said: “On the Basis of Special Treaty”, shall be changed now and instead write down “the Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia”.

The second change that took place between V and VI Congresses. You know that we had the Central Executive Committee and the Council of Public Commissars.  Now we have reorganized them and merged the Central Executive Committee and the Council of Public Commissars into one organ – the Central Executive Committee and the relevant Public Commissariats attached to it.  The Council of Public Commissariats doesn’t exist any more.

These are the principal changes we wanted to report you about. 

Chairman: those who support the approval of these changes please raise your hands.

(adopted).

(Jemal Gamakharia, Badri Gogia, Abkhazia-Historical Region of Georgia. Tbilisi, 1997, p. 503-504/in Russian)