DECREE ISSUED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE REPUBLIC OF GEORGIA on Abolishment of the State of Emergency on the Territories of City of Tskhinvali and Java District.

The Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia decrees:

1. To abolish the state of emergency on the territories of town of Tskhinvali and Java district.

2. The Ministries of Interior and Defence of the USSR must immediately withdraw troops under their jurisdiction from the territory of former South Ossetia.

Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia A. Asatiani

25 November 1991

(Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia, 1991, # 11, p. 24)