MINUTES Of THE FIFTH CONGRESS OF THE SOVIET OF WORKERS’ AND PEASANTS’ DEPUTIES OF THE SOUTH OSSETIAN AUTONOMOUS OBLAST

31 March 1925

Heard:

Information of comrade Kargiyev, the representative of the Central Executive Committee of the North Ossetia about the Resolution of the First Congress of the North Ossetia on unification of South Ossetia and North Ossetia.

Decided:

1. Having heard the information about the resolution adopted by the Congress of the North Ossetian Autonomous Oblast on the unification of North and South Ossetia, the Fifth Congress of the South Ossetian Autonomous Oblast welcomes the Resolution of the First Congress of the North Ossetia and finds timely to raise this issue.

2. The Fifth Congress of the Soviets of the Autonomous Oblast of South Ossetia realizes this unification within the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia.

3. The Fifth Congress of the Soviets of the Autonomous Oblast of Ossetia instructs the Central Executive Committee of South Ossetia to set up the special commission together with the CEC of North Ossetia for learning the issue of the unification of north and south Ossetia.

4. After the Commission has studied the issue of unification of both Ossetia, the Central Executive Committees of both oblasts shall be entrusted with the task of unifying south and north Ossetia.

Chairman A. Jatiev

(Central State Historical Archive of the Nearest Future of Georgia, f. 284, desc. 1, file 179, p. 3)