APPEAL OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF
GEORGIA TO MR. B. YELTSIN, CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE RUSSIAN
SOVIET FEDERATIVE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
As we have learnt, on May 4 of this
year, the illegally convoked session of the Regional Council of People’s
Deputies of the former Autonomous Region of South Ossetia adopted a resolution
on the abolition of the so-called Soviet Republic of South Ossetia and
restoration of the Autonomous Region, which is part of the Republic of Georgia
but “administratively” is under the jurisdiction of the Russian Soviet
Federative Socialist Republic.
And all this happens simultaneously
with the establishment of a commission of deputies of the Supreme Councils of
the
The commission is in charge with
political resolution of the armed conflict in Shida Kartli region. Today we
have the real chance of consolidation of sovereignty of the
Against this background, the step
made by the Ossetian separatists, who aim to undermine and ultimately thwart
the political process as well as to confront the jurisdictions of the
Let us draw your attention to the
fact that the session was held under the chairmanship of A. Chekhoeyv, People’s
Deputy of the
Apart form the fact that A. Chekhoyev,
the former First Secretary of the South Ossetian Regional Committee of the
Communist Party of Georgia was ousted from this post by Ossetians for jobbery,
he had no right to lead the new provocation of the Ossetian separatists as he
was well aware of the issue that was discussed by the Council of Nationalities
and the agreement at which the deputies arrived.
In view of this, on May 7 of this
year, the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
The Presidium of the Supreme Council
of Republic of Georgia is confident that the Supreme Council of the
The Presidium of the Supreme Council
of the
Z. Gamsakhurdia, President of the
(Bulletins of the Supreme Council of the Republic
of Georgia, 1991, # 5, pp. 80-81/Translation
from Georgian)