APPEAL OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE
We have learnt that the Presidium
of the Abkhaz ASSR is going to submit to the session of the Supreme Council of
the Abkhaz ASSR the bills, which grossly violate the sovereignty, territorial
integrity and the supremacy of the Constitution of the
Over many years there has been
a disproportion between Georgian and Abkhaz representatives in the Supreme
Council of the Abkhaz ASSR. Therefore,
the genuine will of the whole autonomous republic is not reflected in the
parliament. This situation gives the
opportunity to the group of deputies to use the simple majority for adopting
the laws and resolutions, neglecting the will of Georgian population, which is
almost a half of the whole population of Abkhazia.
Another piece of evidence is
the fact that non-democratic, forcible measures had been resorted to get the
quorum for adopting so called Declaration on Abkahzia’s Sovereignty.
The Presidium of the Supreme
Council of the
On the other hand, any act
adopted by qualified majority, which goes beyond the competences of the Supreme
Council of the Abkhaz ASSR and usurps the competences attached to the Republic
of Georgia, may not have the legal force under the Constitution of the Republic
of Georgia (articles 72, 79, 82, 104) and the Constitution of the Abkhaz ASSR
(article 66).
The practice of deciding the
issues - which are important for the viability of the Abkhaz ASSR and entire
The presidium of the
The Presidium of the Supreme
Council of the
1 March 1991.
(Newspaper “Abkahzetis Khma” /Voice of Abkhazia/, #
34, 1 March 1991)