DECREE
ISSUED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA on Decree
Issued on November
26 1991 by the Presidium of the
Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR
On 26 November 1991 by the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
Abkhaz ASSR issued decree on “ The Current Situation
of Mobilization of Reservists and Conscription for the Active Military
Service”.
The decree envisages the following: accumulation
and strengthening of mobilization resources of USSR, procedural norms of conscription for military
service in Soviet Army detachments deployed on the territory of Abkhazia. That means creation of military formations of
foreign States and will lead to destabilization of societal-political situation
in the Abkhazian ASSR.
This decree issued by the Supreme Council of the
Abkhaz ASSR constitutes gross violation of the Constitution of the Republic of Georgian and contradicts the decree issued on 9
September 1991 by
the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia on “Creation of Ministry of Defence of the Republic of Georgia”. By virtue of this decree, the Ministry of
Defense of the Republic of Georgia is authorized to establish a National Guard. The
Constitutions of Abkhazian ASSR does not provide for military service in
Abkhazia and it does not entitle the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR with
authority to take decisions on such issues.
Pursuant to Paragraph 24 of Article 104 of the
Constitution of the Republic of Georgia, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia decrees:
To declare invalidated and legally null and void
the decree issued on November 26, 1991 by the Supreme Council of Abkhazian ASSR
on “The Current Situation in the Sphere of Mobilization of Reservists and
Conscription for Military Service”, since it contradicts both the Constitutions
of the Republic of Georgia and the Abkhaz ASSR.
Deputy Chairman of Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia Nemo
Burchuladze
3 December 1991
(Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of
Georgia, 1991, # 12, p. 36-37)