FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSSETIA (adopted on 12 November 1994)

Article 16.

The Republic of North Ossetia establishes its relations with the Republic of South Ossetia on the basis of ethnic, national and historic-territorial unity, social-economic and cultural integration.

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12 November 1994

(Constitution of the Republic of North Ossetia, Vladikavkaz, 1994, p. 6/in Russian)