RESOLUTION
ISSUED BY THE EXTRAORDINARY SESSION OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE NORTH
OSSETIAN SSR
Having discussed the tragic events in the South
Ossetia, the Extraordinary Session of the Supreme Council of the North Ossetian
SSR notes that despite all measures taken by the leadership of the South
Ossetian SSR in the course of the three-year war provoked by Georgian
national-extremists that resulted in casualties of many hundreds of Ossetian
people, disasters and suffering of the population, and also despite the
promises of the new leadership of Georgia on peaceful developments, a new act
of genocide against the Ossetian people has been committed recently. Georgian armed formations traitorously
assaulted the column of refugees: helpless children, women and elders and fired
them point-blank on
Realizing the responsibility towards the people of
1. To
condemn the act of Genocide committed by the Georgian national-extremists
against the Ossetian people.
2. To
announce public mourning on the territory of the North Ossetian SSR from 21 to
24 of May of 1992.
3. To lodge
the emphatic protest to the State Council of Georgia due to the committed act
of vandalism and continued war against the Ossetian people.
5. To bring up to strength the Republican Guard,
including the detachments of Cossack and carry out the enrolment of volunteers
in order to be sent for defending the
6. To block the Georgian Military High-way; to
cut-off the gas supply to
7. To
address to the leadership of the Russian Federation with request of providing
the necessary amount of arms, ammunitions, techniques and properties for the
Republican Guard of the North Ossetia.
In case of objection from the side of the
8. To
entrust the Republican Defence Committee with a task of producing the weapons
at the enterprises of the City Vladikavkaz.
(…)
Chairman of the Supreme council of the South
Ossetian SSR A. Galazov
Vladikavkaz,
21 May 1992
(Newspaper “Severnaia Ossetia”, # 97, 22 May 1992)