RESOLUTION OF the
People’s Council of Abkhazia on the situation in
19 March 1920
Having discussed the situation of the
population of Batumi and Batumi
Oblast, the People’s Council of Abkhazia at its session on 19 March – on the
first anniversary of its existence, unanimously decided to make the following
appeal to the Constituent Assembly of the Republic of Georgia and to the High
Commissioner of Great Britain to Antanta: The
Abkhaz People’s Council always considered the Brest-Lithuanian
Peace-Agreement as a devastating factor to the democratic developments; under
this Agreement the part of the Trans-Caucasus, together with Batumi was given to the despotic regime of Turkey, which
fortunately so far failed to rule-out this historically Georgian province. In early 1918 when Batumi
fell down, as well as now the population of Abkhazia and the People’s Council of Abkhazia realize
the political and economic significance of the oblast and city for the Democratic
Republic and having the benefit from the peaceful coexistence with the
Democratic Georgia, stand ready to apply every possible means together with the
rest of population of Georgia to bring this region back to the Republic and
reunite forcibly separated Batumi Oblast with
Georgia.
For the Chairman – T. Kvaratskhelia
Secretary – K. Akirtava
(Jemal Gamakharia, Badri Gogia, Abkhazia-Historical Region of Georgia.