DECREE
ISSUED BY THE PRESIDIUM OF THE SUPREME COUNCIL OF THE ABKHAZ ASSR on Decree issued by the Presidium of the
Supreme council of the Republic of Georgia of 11 February 1991 concerning the
dismissal of the Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Council of People’s Deputies
of the Gali District
By decree of
the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the
Aforementioned Decree is unlawful as it was issued
breaching Articles 66 and 120 of the current Constitution of the Abkhaz ASSR,
which states, that the state authority is exercised by people through the
people’s deputies. Determination of the
rules for and activity of the local state organs is under the jurisdiction of
the Abkhaz ASSR performed by the supreme organs of the state authority.As a
result of unlawful decree of the
Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia of 11 February 1991
on appointment of the Prefect in the Gali district, the Supreme Council of the
Abkhaz ASSR decrees:
1. To
consider null and void from the moment of its adoption the decree of the Presidium of the Supreme
Council of the Republic of Georgia of 11 February 1991 on dismissal of the
Chairman of the Ispolcom of the Council of People’s Deputies of the Gali
district Rabo D. Shonia and appointment of Edisher K. Janjulia as a Prefect of
the Gali district of the Abkhaz ASSR.
2. The local Councils of the People’s Deputies,
together with the Prosecutor’s Office, Committee of the State Security and the
Ministry of Interior shall undertake necessary measures to secure Constitutional
order of the autonomous republic, organs of the soviet authority and officials
elected by the population of the cities and raions of Abkhazia.
3. This Decree shall be published in press.
Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Abkhaz ASSR
V. Ardzinba
(Newspaper “Sovetskaia Abkhazia”, # 24, 15 February
1991)