MANDATE

21 May 1920

Based on the Decision adopted by the Abkhaz People’s Council of 21 May of this year, the bearers of this Mandate: 1) Varlaam Shervashidze; 2) Grigoriy Zukhbai; 3) Dmitriy Zakharov; 4) Dmitriy Emukhvari; 5) Vionor Anchabadze and 6) Mikhail Tarnava shall be sent to Tbilisi as the delegation to participate in elaboration of the Constitution of Abkhazia.

The Delegation is instructed to base its work on the draft-Constitution elaborated by the Council and uphold the maximum of autonomous rights of Abkhazia.

(Avtandil Menteshashvili, Historical Preconditions of the Current Separatism in Georgia. Tb. 1998, p. 79/in Russian)