RESOLUTION OF VI CONGRESS OF COUNCILS OF WORKERS, PEASANTS AND RED ARMY  DEPUTIES OF THE GEORGIAN SSR “on joining of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia as the autonomous republic”

19 February 1931

VI Congress of Councils of Workers, Peasants and Red Army  Deputies of the Georgian SSR:

a) considering necessary, and for successful implementation of the tasks of socialist developments on the basis of general plan of the public economy brought up before the working masses of the USSR  and for fraternal cooperation of the workers and peasants of these republics;

b) pursuant to the will of workers of Abkhazia, who adopted the Resolution at VI Congress of Councils of Workers, Peasants and Red Army Deputies of the Georgian SSR on joining of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia as the autonomous republic, decrees:

1.  On the basis of Article 9 of the Basic Law (Constitution) of the Georgian SSR, the Soviet Socialist Republic of Abkhazia shall be included within the Soviet Socialist Republic of Georgia as the autonomous republic applying to it the authority specified for in the aforementioned Basic Law.

2. The Treaty, concluded between Georgian SSR and the Abkhaz SSR on 16 December of 1921 shall be considered null and void.

Chairman Ph. Makharadze

Secretary S. Todria

(The Congresses of the Soviets of the USSR, Union and Autonomous Soviets Socialist Republics, vol. 6. The Congresses of the Soviets of the Union and Autonomous Soviets Socialist Republics of Transcaucasus, 1923-1937. M. 1964, p. 557, Abkhaz Soviets (1921-1937), p. 248-249)