DECREE ISSUED BY THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE GEORGIA SSR on election of the Commission of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR to study the issues relating to the Status of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast

The Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR decrees:

1. To set up the Commission to study the issues relating to the status of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast comprising of 19 people.

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Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR G. Gumbaridze

Secretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR V. Kvaratskhelia

18 November 1989

(Bulletin of the Supreme Council of the Georgian SSR, 1989, # 11, p. 98)