DECREE
ISSUED BY the Presidium of THE
STATE COUNCIL OF THE
Attacks of the armed bands on the vitally important
for the country transport system-the Railway -are still continuing. There are
ever increasing facts of blockage, blowing up, and damage of transport
communications, capture and pillage of railway vehicles and cargo, robbery of
passengers, threatening the lives of people working in the railway system. At the same time, we are especially concerned
by the fact that citizens from some regions of
The measures, undertaken by the Railway Department
and law-enforcement agencies are not sufficient to secure protection of the
railway. The Manifest issued by the
State Council of the
On the next day the Manifest was issued, plotters
attacked freight train and wounded a conductor.
At the same day they stopped railway traffic in Poti. On August 8 railway bridge
was exploded in Chaladidi. Tbilisi-Moscow and Tbilisi-Yerevan trains
were stopped and robbed in Gali. Several armed persons attacked freight train
at Tsatkhvi-Inguri portion of railway and robbed the
train. At a station of Kheta armed people robbed two carriages of goods train; the
same was repeated next day.
The damage inflicted as a result of the
aforementioned criminal activities amounts nine billion rubles. National
economy and citizens are deprived of essential food and goods. It’s impossible to deliver to Abkhazia, Poti and Samegrelo region any
kind of goods or supply, thereby further deteriorating the already difficult
social-economic situation in the country and threatens the whole society with
all-encompassing chaos and anarchy. The neighboring
In order to ensure security of traffic,
restoration of legality and order and immediate normalization of the situation
on the Georgian railway, the Presidium of the State Council of the
1. Pursuant to Paragraph 2 of Article 13 of the
Rules of Procedure of the State Council of the Republic of Georgia, to
introduce the State of Emergency on the Georgian Railway on 15 August 1992 for
the duration of one month.
2. To entrust the Armed Forces of the Ministry of
Defense and the Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Georgia and units of
militarized protection of the Georgian Railway Department with a task of
implementation of the State of Emergency.
3. The Ministry of Defence
of the
4. Those armed forces authorized to implement the
State of
8. This decree shall come into force immediately
after it is signed.
Chairman of the State Council of the
(Abkhaz Issue in Official Documents, Legislative
and Executive organs of Georgia, International Organizations, 1989-1999, part
I, 1989-1995, authors: Vakhtang Kholbaia,
Teimuraz Chakhrakia, Rafiel Gelantia, David Latsuzbaia, Tb., 2000, p. 78-80/in Georgian)