PROTOCOL of the negotiation between the Chairman of the
Supreme Council of the RSFSR and the Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia
1.
To work out during April of 1991 the draft of the Agreement on interstate
relations between the RSFSR and the Republic of Georgia to be
signed; for this purpose the working group shall be set up.
Concerning
the stabilization of the situation in the region of former South Ossetian
Autonomous oblast the sides agreed as
follows:
2. The Ministry of Interior of the RSFSR and the
Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Georgia shall set up, in ten days term, the joint Commission for investigation
the situation in the aforementioned region and objective evaluation of the
events before 20 April of current year.
3.
The Ministry of Interior of the RSFSR and the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Georgia
shall form the joint detachment of militia in order to carry out the process of
disarmament of illegal armed formations in the territory of the former South
Ossetian Autonomous Oblast. The detachment
shall secure public order in the mentioned region before restoration of
stability.
4.
To address to the Ministry of Defence of the USSR
with a proposal of re-dislocation of the military unites of the Soviet Army
from the territory of the former South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast.
5.
The Councils of Ministers of the RSFSR, the Republic of Georgia and
the North Ossetian SSR shall start activities on establishment of the
conditions for return of refugees to the places of their permanent
residence. Restoration of legal state
agencies shall be secured.
6.
The governments of the RSFSR, the Republic of Georgia and
the North Ossetian SSR shall set up Commission on estimating the sustained loss
to refugees and carry out additional measures for material and financial
assistance in order to compensate this damage.
7.
Restoration of peace and stability in the region shall be considered as a final
task of establishing Commission and detachment.
8.
To set up permanent Group to exercise control over the implementation of the
Protocol and regulation of emerging disputes.
Chairman
of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR B.
Yeltsyn
Chairman
of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia Z. Gamsakhurdia
23
March 1991
(Newspaper “Vestnik Gruziy”, # 42, 28 March
1991)