Abkhaz Issue in the Constituent Assembly of Georgia
By the time the autocracy fell (February 1917), Abkhazia, called the Sukhumi district, was part of the Kutaisi province. Even before the restoration of Georgia’s state independence, among the Georgian political parties and society, there was an unshakable conviction that Abkhazia is an integral part of Georgia and it will have `full internal independence, that is, broad autonomy’.1The research was carried out within the framework of the Shota Rustaveli National Science Foundation of Georgia Grant Project “Consistuent Assembly of Georgia: Experience of Georgian Parliamentarism”. Grant Code: FR-18-20157 It was on this basis that the relations of the Republic of Georgia with Abkhazia in 1918-1921 began to be built. According to an official agreement on June 11, 1918, formalized between the Abkhaz National Council and the government of the Georgian Democratic Republic, Abkhazia was declared an integral part of Georgia and autonomous rights were recognized for it. The government of Georgia undertook obligations to provide military and economic assistance to Abkhazia.
