DECISION OF THE 16TH (2) SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF THE PEOPLE’S DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN SOVIET REPUBLIC on the attitude towards the Resolution issued on 22 November 1990 by the newly elected Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia “On Decision of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast on changing the status of the Oblast”

The 16th (2) session of the Council of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic decides:

1. To endorse and keep valid the decisions of 13th, 14th and 15th sessions of the Council of People’s Deputies of the South Ossetia relating to the legal status and the election of the People’s Deputies to the Supreme Council of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic of 9 December 1990.

2. To deliver the information regarding this Decision to the President of the USSR Comr. Gorbachev, the Supreme Council of the USSR and the Fourth Congress of the People’s Deputies of the USSR.

The Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Council

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic T. Kulumbegov

The Secretary of the Ispolcom of the Council

of the People’s Deputies of the South Ossetian Soviet Republic K. Kokoev

28 November 1990

(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Ossetia”, # 226, 1 December 1990)