PROTOCOL OF BATUMI
MEETINGS on the issues of Soviet Power and Communist Party Structures in Abkhazia
28 March 1921
Attended: comrade Orjonikidze,
the member of the Revolutionary Council and of the RKP CK of the Caucasus
Bureau; comrade Eliava, the Commissar of the Navy
Affairs of Georgia; comrade Toroshelidze, the
Chairman of the Batumi Okrug
Revolutionary Committee; comrade Eshba, the Chairman
of the Revolutionary Committee of Abkhazia and the member of the Organizational
Committee; comrade Lakoba, the member of the
Revolutionary Committee and the Organizational Committee of Abkhazia, the
Commissar of the Region.
Heard: the issues of Soviet Power
and Communist Party Structures in Abkhazia.
Decided: Until the convocation of the Congress of the
Councils of Abkhazia the issue on attaching Abkhazia to the RSFSR or Georgian
SSR shall remain open. Abkhazia is being
declared as the
The Party organization, until the Congress is
convoked shall have the name of the Organizational Bureau of the Revolutionary
Committee and work under the directives of the RKP CK of the Caucasus Bureau.
In order to avoid confrontation in the
activities of both Revcoms, the decrees issued by the
Revolutionary Committee (Revcom) of
Organizational Bureau shall carry out effective
measures aimed at eradicating the ethnic confrontation bred by Mensheviks
between the peoples of
(Jemal Gamakharia, Badri Gogia, Abkhazia-Historical Region of Georgia.