DECREE ISSUED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF GEROGIA on Establishment of Interim Organs of Governance and Fixing the Date of Elections to Sakrebulos (local councils - edit.) on the Territory of the Former Tskhinvali District.

Due to the complicated situation in the former Tskhinvali district, elections to the local Sakrebulos have not been held. As a result, there is no organ of State authority and governmental body at the level of community and village.

Having considered proposal suggested by the Prefects of Gori and the Gori district on establishment of interim organs of Governance and fixation of date of elections to Sakrebulos, the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia decrees:

1. To entrust the Prefects of Gori and the Gori district with a task of appointing their plenipotentiaries as acting Camgeblebi (Chairpersons - edit.) of Sakrebulos on the territory of former Tskhinvali District’s community councils.

2. The term of jurisdiction of the plenipotentiaries shall be expired immediately upon election of Gamgeblebi to local Sakrebulos.

3. To hold elections to the Kurti, Kemerti and Berula community Sakrebulos respectively on 25, 26, and 28 September of 1991.

4. This decree shall come into force immediately upon publication.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia Akaki Asatiani

25 July 1991

(Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia, 1991, # 7, p. 93)