RESOLUTION ADOPTED BY THE SECOND CONGRESS OF THE OSSETIAN PEOPLE

The Second Congress of the Ossetian people has been convened in the situation of deep political, social-economic and cultural crisis.  Permanent threats from south and east pose the real wide-scale conflicts endangering not only the territorial integrity of the North and South Ossetia, but also the historical prospective of the Ossetian people.

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Base on the resolution of the First Congress of the Ossetian people, the Second Congress decrees:

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- to reaffirm historical expediency of joining of the unified Ossetia to Russia;

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- to establish defence system of Ossetia in order to ensure protection of the population obtaining the military units of the Republic under the jurisdiction of the state law-enforcement agencies;

- to consider the programme adopted by the parliaments of the North and South Ossetia on economic and cultural integration as an important instrument on the way of development of Ossetia’s statehood;

- to consider inadmissible further procrastination of elaboration and implementation of the complex programme for regulation the problems of refugees;

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- to establish unified energy system aimed at further economic integration of the South and North Ossetia;

- to establish unified cultural environment of the South and North Ossetia through coordinating all cultural and language programmes.

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Vladikavkaz, 21-22 May 1993

(Newspaper “Severnaia Ossetia”, # 108, 8 June 1993)