RESOLUTION 16(2) OF THE SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF SOUTH OSSETIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC on the Attitude to the Decree adopted by the newly-elected Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia “on the Resolutions adopted by the Council of the People’s Deputies of South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast on hanging the Oblast status” of 22 November 1990

16 (2) session of the Council of People’s Deputies of South Ossetian Soviet Republic, being guided by the right of nation on self-determination, decides:

1. To approve and retain valid the Resolutions 13, 14, 15(1) of the Sessions of the Council of People’s Deputies of South Ossetia on legal status and elections of the people’s deputies to the Supreme Council of South Ossetian Soviet Republic – 9 December 1990.

2. The items of the present Resolutions shall be communicated to the President of the USSR Gorbachev M. S., to the Supreme Council of the USSR and to the IV Congress of the People’s Deputies of the USSR.

Chairman of the Executive Council

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic T. Kulumbegov

Secretary of the Executive Council

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic I. Kokoev

28 November 1990

(Conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Documents 1989-2006 (Supplement to “Kavkazskie Sborniki”, edition #1). Collected and commented by M. A. Volkhonski, B. A. Zakharov, N. Y. SIlaev. – Moscow, 2008, p. 192-193/in Russian)