STATEMENT OF THE CENTRAL COMMISSION OF REFERENDUM OF THE REPUBLIC OF SOUTH OSSETIA

On 19 January 1992 nation-wide voting (referendum) was held in the Republic of South Ossetia on the issues of independence of the Republic of South Ossetia and joining Russia. The results of referendum firmly demonstrate the lawfulness of national and political programs that are implemented by the government of the Republic of South Ossetia on the basis of inalienable right of the nation to self-identification, in accordance with the norms of law adopted by the international community.

One of the major political outcomes of the referendum is the entire failure of the statement of opponents on political transformations in South Ossetia. The referendum has showed that 99% of electors from the voters’ list support the independence of South Ossetia and its joining Russia.

Equality and independence may not be achieved by compelling measures, and the view of people may not be irresponsible – as some media means state, thus supporting Georgian neo-fascism, voluntarily or not.

Active participation in voting of refuges from Georgia, the victims of anti-Ossetian massacres and persecutions, refutes the information on negative attitude of Ossetians, living in Georgia outside of the Republic of South Ossetia, towards the program on national self-identification of southern Ossetians and joining Russia.

Therefore, the Referendum of the Republic of South Ossetia once again strongly affirmed the lawfulness of democratic transformations implemented by the Supreme Council and the government of the Republic of South Ossetia are based on the strict observance of the norms of International Law.

Chairman of the Central commission of the Referendum Y. A. Dzitsoiti

24 January 1991

(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. 205-206/in Russian)