TASS coverage of the attempted coup in USSR, August 1991 Captured contemporaneously by Ian Chard ..85533 FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY'S DECISIONS ARE MANDATORY FOR UNSWERVING FULFILMENT BY ALLEGIANCES OF POWER AND ADMINISTRATION, OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS THROUGHO+UT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSC. V SIGNED: N G.ANAQV V.,PAVLOV O. BAKLANOV ITEM ENDS + MSK 11.39 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA1#6 Q INF 0676 V SS BC884E999 VEN E999001 WZEMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + Z .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION--FULL =1. N((!8=35-(3') 19/8 TASS 33 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY ISSUED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION NO. Q HERE TODAY: WITH A VIEW TO PROTECTING THE VITAL INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLES AND CITIZENS OF THE USSR AND THE COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, RESTORING LAW AND ORDER, STABILISING THE SITUATION, OVERCO+MING THE GRAVEST CRISIS, AND PREVENTING CHAOS, ANARCHY AND A FRATRICIDAL CIVIL WAG, THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OK EMERGENCY IN THE USSR RESOLVES: 1. ALL BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE USSR, UNION AND AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICAN TERRITORIES, REGIONS, CITIES, DISTRICTS, VILLAGES AND SETTLEMENTS SHOULD ENSURE UNGAILING MOMPLIANVE WITH STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGULATIONS IN KEEPING WITH THE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL CEGCME OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY+ AND WITH THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE O+F EMERGENCY'S RESOLUTIONS. IN THE EVENT OF THEIR INABILITY TO ENSURE THE OBSERVANCE OF THESE REGULATIONS, THE POWERS OF THE RESPECTIVE BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION ARE TO BE SUSPENDED, WITH+ THEIR FUNCTCOMS TO BE EXERCISED BY OFFICIALS SPECIALLY APPOINTED BY THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY. 2. TO IMMEDIATELY DISMANTLE THE STRUCTURES OF POWER, ADMINISTRATION AND MILITARISED UNITS ACTING CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR. 3. TO REGARD THE LAWS AND DECIS+IONS BS BODIES OF PO AND ADMINISTRATION THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR AS BEING HENCEFORTH INVALID. 4. TO SUSPEND THE ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES, SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS AND MASS MOVEMENTS THAT PREVENT THE NORMALISATION OF THE SITUATION. MORE MSK 11.45 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA082 E INF 018 TASS CC519 E999 EN E999001 +GORBACHEV-YANAYEV + Z .URGENT-DECREE BY SOVIET VICE-PRESIDENT--FULL. 19/8 TASS 11 OOECOI AUGUST 19 TASS - IN CONNECTION WITH THE INABILITY FOR HEALTH REASONS BY MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES AS USSR PRESIDENT, I HAVE ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF USSR PRESIDENT FROM AUGUST 19, 1991 ON THE BASIS OF ARTICLE 127 KUL OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION. GENNADY I. YANAYEV VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZMZ ITEM ENDS MSK 11.46 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA084 E INF 0605 TASS BC579 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + Z .URGENT -- STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET. (THREE TAKES) 19/8 TASS 6 C MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - FOLLOWS THE FULL TEXT OF THE STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET: +IN CONNECTION WITH NUMEROUS LETTERS FROM WORKERS REQUESTING ME TO EXVGESS MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DRAFT TREATY OF UNION OF SOVEREIGN STATES PUBLISHED THREE DAYS AGO, I CONSIDER IT NECESSARY TO DECLAR+E TFOLLOWING: THE DRAFT TREATY WAS SUPPORTED ON THENCFMLE BY THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET ON JCLY 12, QOOQM THE SUPREME SOVIET HAS FORMED A PLENIPOTENTIARY UNION DELEG TION AND ASSIGNED IT TO PROCEED, IN ADDING FINAL TOUCHES TO AND COORDINATING THE DRAFT TREATY, FROM A NUMBER OF PROVCWONS FORMULATED BY THE SUPREME BODY OF AUTHORITY IN THE COUNTRY. FIRST OF ALL, THE NEED WAS STRESSED TO REFLECT IN ZHE TITLE AND BASIC PRIOOINTES OF THEHOREATY THE R SULTS OF THE ALL-UNION REFERENDUM IN THE COUR+SE OF WHICH THE ABSOLUTE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY'S CITIZENS SUPPORTED THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS AS A RENOVATED FEDERATION OF EQUAL SOVEREIGN REPUBLICS. A SIMI+LAR APPROACH TO THE TITLE AND CHARACTER OF THE UNION STATE WAS FORMULATED BY THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR. DETAILED ARGUMENTATION OF THIS POSITION OF THE USSR SUPREMEN SOVIET WAS MADE AT A MEETING OF THE HEADS OF PLENIPOTENTIARY DELEGATIONS IN MOVO-OGAREVO,+ THENSTATEMENT READS. MO+RE MSK 11.51 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA085 E IND 0535 TASS DC532 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + Z .URGENT GAA STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET GCIM 19/8 TASS 6 +NONETHELEBL, IT WAS NOT REFLECTED IN THE FINAL TEXT OF THE TREATY. NATURALLY, THIS ISSUE WIPL UNDOUBTEDLY DEMAND EXTRA DISCUSSION BY THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE PPIFBN&() PROBABLY, AN ALL-UNION REFERENDUM CONNECTED WITH THE ADOPTION OF A NEW CONSTITUTION. THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET FOUND IT EXPEDIENT TO ENVISAG+E IN THE DRAFT UNION TREATY THE PRESENCE IN THEUSSR OF A SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE, A SINGLE BANKING SYSTEM AND THE PRESERVATION AS PROPERTY OF THE UNION THE PROPERTY THAT IS REQUIRED FOR ITS NORMAL FUNCTIONING AS A FEDERAL STATE. THE DEMAND FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF INDEPENDENT TAX DEDUCTIONS INTO THE UNION BUDGET WASUTIPULATED SPECIALLY. REGRETTABLY, THESE M JOR PROVISIONS WERE NOT SUFFICIENTLY CLEAR REFLECTED IN THE PUBLISHED TEXT OF THE TREATY. THIS IS ALSO EVIDENCED FROM RECENT STATEMENTS +BY THE USSR CABINET OF MINISTERS, THE BOARD OF THE USSR STATE BANK AND SEVERAL OTHER UNION BODIES. THIS WILL PROBABLY DEMAND CONSIDERABLE AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT OF THE TREATY,+ THE STATEMENT SAYS. MORE MSK 11.54 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA086 E INF 0705 TASS CC700 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + Z .URGENT -- STAEMENT BY VHAIRMAN OF SOVCETHFUPREME SOVIET =3. 19/8 TASS 6 +THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET PAID EXCLUSIVELY SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THE TERMINATION OF THE SO-CALLED +WAR OF LAWS+, IN FACT GLARING LAWLESSNESS. IN TIS CONNECTION, A NORM WAS PROPOSED FOR INCLUSION INTO THE TREATY TO PREVENT THE SUSPENSION BY THE USSR OF REPUBLICAN LAWS AND BY+ THE REPUBLICS OF UNION LAWS, AND THE RESOLUTION OF POSSIBLE DISPUTES THROUGH CONCILIATORY PROCEDURES OR RULINGS BY THE USSR CONSTITUTIONAL COURT. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THIS PROPOSAL WAS BACKED BY LEADING SOVIET LAWYERS, IT FAILED TO FIND PROPER REFLECTION IN THE TEXT OF THE TREATY PREPARED IN NOVO-OGAREVO. THERE IS NO NEED TO PROVE MOWSXNKOYOUS THIS IS FOR THE FORMATION OXMA STABLE LEGAL SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRS. THE ORDER OF IMPLEMENTING THE TREATY DURINGHE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD TO SECIRE +ONTINUITY INTHE OPERATION OF BODIES OF STATE AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT DEMANDS A CONSIDERABLY CLEARER DEFINITION IN THE TREATY. WITHOUT THIS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN, AT LEAST TO THE MINIM+UM EXTENT, THE FUNCTIONING OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY IN TENT EXTREMELY GRAVE CRISIS SITUATION IN THE COUNTRYLM ALL THESENVROBLEMS DEMAND, IN MX OPINION, EXTRA DISCUSSION AT A SESSION OF THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET AND THEN, PROBABPY, AT THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF HE US 9 WITHOUT THIS, SUCH A DOZCUMENT OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO THE DESTINIES OF OUR TE AS THE UNION TREATY CANNOT FULLY REFLECT THE SOVIET PEOPLE'S WILL TO PRESERVE THE USSR, A GREAT POWER CALLED UPON TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF CITIZENS OF ALL NATIONALITIES AND AXERTING MOST SERIOUS INFLUENCE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. N A. LUKYANOV CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZ ITEM ENDS MSK 12.00 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCTCKNA123 Q INF 0679 TASSPED=52 E9=9,EN E99900 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + Z .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION--FUT =2. 19/8 TASS 33 5. IN CONNECTION WITH THE FACT THA THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR TEMPORARILY ASSUMES FUNCIONS N OS THE USSR SECURITY COMMITTEE, THE ACTIVITY OF THA LATTER IS SUSPENDED. N WYM CITIZENS, INSTITUTIONS ANE ORGANISATIONS SHOULD HAND IN WITHOC DELAY ALL TZPES OF F E IRMGN MUNITIONS, EXPLOSIVES, MILITARY HARDWARE A+NB EQUIPMENT IN THEIR UNLAWFUL POSSESSION. THE IMTERIOR MINISTRY, THE KGB AND THE DEFENCE MINISTRY OF THE USSR S OULD SECURE STRICT COMPLIANCE WITH THIS DEMAND. PN CAS OF REFUSAL, TO CONFISCATE THEM IN A OMPULSORY ORDER AND BRING OFFENDERS TO STRICT CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT. 7. THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE. THE INTERIOR MINISTRYPN THE KGB AND THE DEGENCE MINISTRY OF THE USSR SHOULD ORGAISE EFFECTIVE INRACTION OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT BODIES AND THE ARMED FORCES TO ENSURE PROTECTION OF PUBLIC+ ORDER AND SENURITY OF THE STATE, SOCIETY AND CITIZENS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY+ AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERTENC+Y IN E USSR. N NRALLIES, VEREET MACCHES, DEMONSTRWTIONS ANDSTRIKES ARE NOT ALLOWED. IN CASE OF NEED, TO INTROUCE CURFEW, PATROL TERRITORYWN CONDUCT EXAMINATION AND ADOPT MEASURES FOR ENHANCING THE BORDER AND CUSTOMS REGIME. TO ESTABLIS CONTROL, AND IN NECESSARY CASEE PROTECTION, OVER MAJOR5 STATE AND ECONOMIC FACILITIES, AND LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS. RESOLUTELY TO CURB THE DISSEMINATION OF INSTIGATORY RUMOURS AND ACT ONS PROMTCCNG VIOLATIONS OF LAW AND ORER AND KINDLING OF INTER-ETHNIC STRIFE, DISOBEDIENCE TO OFFICIALS SECURING OBSERVANCE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS. MORE MSK 12.05 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN VQQVBV ZNZCKNA124 Q INF 0666 TASS BD103 E999 EN E999,0, +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTITN + Z .STATEAOF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION--FULL =3. 19/8 TASS 33 8. TO ESTABLISH CONTROL OVER THE M Y ISRSPNK)ENTRUSTING IT TO AN AGNCS SPECIALLY SET UP UNDER THE STATENCOMMITTEE FOR THE SONMOLOFNEMERGENC. 5. BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION AND HEADS OF ORGANISATITNS ANDENTERPVISES, SHOULDTAKE MEARUHES TO INCREAUS OO NISATION AND RESTORE ORDER AND DISCIPLINE TO ALL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC L FEGZO TOIANSURE HE NORMUL FUNCTIONING OF ENTERPRISES IN ALL SECTORRZF THE MATIONAL ECONOMY, THE STRICT FULFILMANT OF MEASURES TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE, FOR THE STABILISATION PERIOD, VERTICAO AOD HORIZONTAL TIES BETWEEN SUBJECTS OF ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT THROUGHBUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR, AND THE UNFAILING ACHIEVTMENTNOFP ANNE TARGETS REGARDING PRODUCTION ND SQPLIES OF RAW AND OTHER MATERIALS AND COMPONENTELM TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AUSTERITY ARHANGEMENTS CONCERNING THE USE OF MATERIALS, EQUIPM+ENT AMD FOREIGN CURRENCY, AND TO WORK OUT AND IMPLEMENT SPECIXIC MEASURES TO COMBAT MISMANAVEMENT AND THE SQUANDERING OF PUBLIC WEALTH. TO WAGE A DECISIVE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE SHADOW ECONOMY AND + INEXORABLY ENFORCE MEASURES OF CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSILILITY IN INSTANCES OF CORRUPTION, THEFT, PROFITEERING, GOODS CONCEALMENT, BUNVLED MAOAGEMENT AND OTHER ECONOMIC WRONGDOING. TO CREATE FAVOURABLE CONDPTIONS FOR ALL FORMS OF NTERPRISE THAT COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE USSR TM INCREAS+ ZAUQNIFBYEAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COUNTRY'SECONOMIC POTENTINCBN&).335 VITAL POPULAR NEEDS. N 10. TO CONSIDER REGULAR WORK ON STRUCTURES OFLAUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION INCOMPATIBLE WITH MOONLIGHTING IN ENTREPRENEARIAL CAPACITY. MORE MSK 12.11 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA087 E ING 0160 TASS AC789 E999 EN E999001 =+EMERGENCY-YANAYEV GZ Z .YANAYEV'S ADJGESS TO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT, UN =1. (TWO TAKES)' 19/8 TASS 12 MOSCOW AUGUST QO TASS - FOLLOWING IS THE FULL EXT OF VICE-PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADSNOF STATE AOSAIFNGOVERNMENT ANB THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL, WZAT THE INSTRUCTION OF THE SOVCAT LEADERSHIP I THER SY NOTIFY THAT A STATE OF EMERGENCY IINTRODUCED N INDIVIDUAL LOCALITIES OF TH UNION OF SOVIET SOCIA+LIST REPUBICS FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS FROM AUGUST 15, QOOQ IN KEEPING WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWF OF THE USSR. ALL POWER IN THE COCNRZIS TRANSFERRED FOR THNY IQNFIQRLOO THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR. MORE MSK 12.1 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN KV ZCZCKNA127 Q INF 0700 VTASS EDWQEE E999EN E999001 +EMERGENCX-RESOLUTITN + Z .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE GESOLUTION -- VFQLL ==. V 19/8 TA S 33 11. THE CA8,39! MINISTERS NS HEREBY IMSTRUCTED TO TAKE STOCK OF ALAVAILABLE RESOURCES OF FOTD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS AND REPORT TO LHE PEOPLE WHATTHE VOUNTRY HAS AT NTS DISPOSAL, TAKE UNE STRICT CONTROL THEIR PRESERVATION AND DISTRIBUTION. ANY RESTRICTIONS ESTABLISHED TO PREVENT TRANSPORTATION ACROSS THE USSR TERRITORY OF+ FOODSTUFFS AND CONSUMER GOODS, AS WELL AS MATERIAL RESOURCES FOR HEIR PRODUCTION, SHOULD BE PROCAIM D NULL AND VOIT, EXERSISIMG DILIGENT CONTROL OVERTHE OBSERVANCE OF THIS T ORDER. SPECIAL ATTENTION SHOULDPBE PAID TO PRIORITY SUPPLIES TO PRE-SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENTS, ORPHANAGES, SCHOOLS SPECIALIZED SECONDARYAND HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLCSHMENTS AND HOSPI L, AS WELP AS PENBIKJOYS AND DISABLED PERSONSGM PRONOSALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED WITHIN A WEEK FOR STREAMLINING, FREEZ NG OR REDUCING PRCCES+ FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF CMNSUMER GOODS UND FOODSTUFFS - FIRST OF ALL THOFEHINTZNDED FO CHILDREN - EVERYD Y SERVICES AND PUBLIC CATERING, AS WELL AS RAISING WAO R, PENSIONS AND COMPEFSATION SUMS TT+ DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF CITIZENS. O MEASURES SHOULD BE WO KEBIOUT WITHIN TWO WEEKS T STREAMLINE THE SIZE OF IAY TO THE LEADERU AT ALL LEVELSOFISTATE, PUBLIV, COOPERATIVE OR OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS, ORGANISATIONS ANJ ENTERPRISES. 12. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE CRITICALSSITUATION IN HARVESTING AND TH+E THREAT OF FAMNNE, EMTRAORDINARY MEASURES SHOULD BE TAKEN TO ORGANISE THE PROCUREMENT, STORALE AND PROCESSING OF FARMN PRODUCE. MAXIMUM AID SHOULD BE RENDERED TO AGRCCULTURAL WORKERS BY PROVIDING MACHINERY, SPARE PARTS, FUEL AND LUBRICANTS, ETNLM ENTERPRISE AND OFFICE WORERS AND EMPLOYEES, STUES ANDNISERVICEMEN IN NECESSARY NIMBERS SHOULD BE PROMPTLY SENT TO THE COUNTRY TO SAVE THE HURVEST. MORE MSKN12.19 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN VKFYC ZCZCKNA088 E INF 0810 TASS CC699 E999AN E999001 +EMERGENCQ-YANAQEV + Z .YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADROF UTATE AND GOVERNMENT, UOH=2., 19/8 TASS 1- N THE MEASURES THAT ARE BEING ADOPTED ARE TEMPORARY9THEY IN NTN LAY MEAN RENUNCIATIONNOF THE COURSE TOQARDSPROFOCMD REFORMS CN ALL SP ERES OF LIDE MF THE STAT AND SOCIETY. Q THESE ARA FOGCED MEASURES, DICTATAD BY TME VITAL NEEDTO SAV Z WLTHE ECONOMY ROM RUIN AND THE COUNTRYNHOM HUNGERWN TO PEVENT TPE ESCALATION OF THE T TSGICBMF +A LARGEAVOGICOLCIVIL CONFLICT W TH UNPREDICTABPE CONSEQUOCE FOR THD PEOPLES OF THENUSSR AND TH VENTIRE INTERNATIONAL COMMKNITY. THE MOST IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS TO SECURS CONDITIOMGITHATIWOULD GUARANTEE EACH CITIZEN PERSONAL SAFETY AND THE SAFETYOF HIS TR HER PROPERTY. NT IS ENVI AGED TO LIQUIDATE ANTI-VOVUTITUTIONAL, UNGOVERNABLE AND ESSENTIALLY CRIMINA MILITARY FORMATIOMS SPREADING MORAL ANDNPHMFICAT EYRTR IN SEVERAL REGIONS OF THE USSR AND SERVING AS A CATALY+ST FOR DISINTEGRATION HROCESSES. ZAIICXOLENTIRE RANGE OF MEASURES ADOPTED IS DIRECTED AT THE EARLIEST STABI NSATION OF THE SITUATION IN THE USSR, THE NORMALISATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE, THE +IMPLEMENTATION OF NECESSACY TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE CREATIBNPOF CONDITIONS FOR THE COUNTRY'S ALL-ROUNDSDEM LOPMENT. TF UIUCGOY WWY WOULD LEAD TO ENHANCED CONROTATION AND VIOLENCE, TO THE INNUMEGABLE SUFFEGING OFMOUC PEOPLES JN THE CREATIONHOF A DANGEOUS FOCUS OF TENSION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF INTRNATION+AL SEMXLWIIFKL THE TEMPTRARY MERGECY MEASURES IN NO MEAN AFFECT INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS ASSUME BY T SOVIET UNION UNDER EXISTING TREATIES AND AG EEMENTS. THE USSR IS PREPARED TO DEVELOP FCRTHER ITS RELATIONS WITM ALL STATES ON THE BASIS OF UNIVERSALPY RECOGNISED PRINCIPLES OF IGOOD-IGHBOURLINESSWN EQUALITYLNMUTUAL BENEFIT AND INON-INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL AFXAIRS OF EACH OTHER9 N WE ARE CONVINCED THAT OUR CURRENT DIFFICULTIESNARE TANSITTRY IN CHARACTER AMD THE SOVIET UNION'S CONTRIBIT+ION TO PRESERVIOG PEACE AND CONSOLIJATING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY WILL REMAIN SUBSTANTIAL. N THE LEADERSHIP OF THE USSR HOPES THATNTHE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MAASURES WIPL FIND PROPER UNDEGSTANDING ON THE PARTNOF THE PEOPLES AD LOVERNMENTSN AND THE UNITAD NATIONS ORGANISATION. GENNADY YANAYEV ACTIG PREDIDENT OF THE USSC AUGUST CN QOOQMZ ITEM ENDS MSK LUWMWY QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN V ZC:(,-129 Q INF KUUFFBTAS AD491 E995 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTIOM +,++ .STATE-OFGAEMERGENCY COMMITTEE RESOLUTION -- FULII= TMT 19/:05-'' 33 13. THE CABINET OF MIN STRS IS HEREBNINSTRUCTED TO WORK OUT, WITHIN A WEEK A RESOLUTCON TO ENSURE THE PROVISION IN 1991 AND 1992 OF PLOTS OF LAND FOR FRUIZ AND VETTABLE-GROWING, MEASUCING UP TO O,15#HECTARE, TO EACH AND EVERYCITY DWELLER WHO SO WISHESKL 14. THE CABINET MF MINISTERS OF THE USSR SHOULD COMPL TE, WITHIN TWO WEAK+S, THE DRAWINT UPNOF PLANS FOR EMERGENCYMEASC E TO BE TAKEN TO PULL TM COUNTRY!7 FUEL-ANDBAPOWER COMPLEX OU OF TTE CRISIS AND PREPARE FOR HE WINTER. 1. PRACTICAL MEA CRES FOR 1992 SHOULD BE PCEPARED AND REPORTED TO THE PEOPLE TO RAICALLY IMPOVE HOUSINGCONSCCTION AND ENSURE THENNROVISION OK HOUSING TO PEOPLEGM WITHIN SIX MONTHS,, A PRACTCCAL VROGRAMME SHOULD BE WORCED OUT TO EXPEDITE HE DVELOPMENT OF STATE. COOPERATIVE ANDI INDIVIDUAL HOUSE-BKCLEING IN THE E5!8=3 YEARS. 16.+ NT IS HEREBY MULE INCUMBENT ON THE CENTRAI AND LOCALH BODIES OF AUTMORITH ANBGOMERNMENT TO PAY PRIORITY ATTENTION TO PEOPLE'S SOCIAL NEEDS AND PINPOINT AREAS FTR SUBSTANTI L IMPROVEMENT ODFRE HEALT+M SERVICES AND PUBLIC EDUCATION. ITEM ENDS MSK 12.2919-08-1991 NNNN MF ZCZCKNA089 E INF 1484 TASS AC788 E999 EN E999001 +LADERSHIH-1'5-53.3,5 + Z .SOVIET LEADERSHIP'S STATEMENT--FULL. 19/8 TASS 13 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS 7 FOLLOWS THE FULL STATEMENT BY THE SOVIET LEADERSHCP: N IN VIEW OF MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV'S INABILITY, FOR HULTH R FRIK?()TO PERFOHM THE DUTIES OF THE USSR PRESIDENT AND OF THE TRANSFER OF THE USSR PRES DENT'R HAERS. IN KEEPING WITT PARAGRAPH(, ARTICPE 127, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION, TO USSR VICE- PRESIDENTGENNADY C+VANOVICH YANAYEV, -- WITH THE AIM OF OVERCOMING THE PROFOUND AND COMPREHENSIVWLCRISIS, POLITICAL, ETHNIC AND CIVIT STRIFE, CHAOS AND ANARCHY THAT #43-53 THE LIVES AND UECURITY OF THE SOVIET UNION'S CITIZENS AND THE SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORY INTEGRITY, FREEDOM AND INDEPENDENCE OF OUG FATHARLAND, -- PCOCEEDING FROM THE RESUPTS OF THE NATIONWIDE REFERENDUM ON THE PRESENVATIOM ON THE UMION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, -- ANB GUIDED BY TH VITAL INTERESTS OF ALL ETHNIC GROIPS PIVING IN OUR +XATHERLAND AMD ILL SOVIET PEOPLE, WE RESOLVE:, 1. IN ACCOREINCE WITH PARAGRAPH LEN ARTICLA 127, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION AND RTICLE 2 OF THE USSR LAW +ONNTHE LEGAPREG ME OFNA STATE OF +EM RGENCY+ ANE WITH JEMANDS BYNBROAD POPULAR MASSES TO ADOP THE MOST DECISCVE MEARURES TO PREVENT SOCIETY GROMN SLIDING INTO NATIONAL CATASTROPHE AND ENSURE LAW AND ORDER, TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENNZBAAPCKKT PARTS OSTHE SOVIETNUMNGN T FOR SIXMONTHS FROM 04:00 MO NOW TIME ON AUGUST 19, QOOQM 2.,TOCESTAB+LNSH TTA THE COMSTITUTCON AND LAWS OF THE USSR O HAVE UNCONDITIONAL PRIORITY THROUVHOUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR. 3. TO FORM A STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCXFIN THE USSR IN ORDER TRUN THE COUNT Y AND EFFECTIVELY EXERCISETHE STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGIME, CONSISTING OF: O.D. BAKLANBV, FIC9 DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF T USSR DEFENCE COUNCIL, V.A. KRYUCHKOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE KGB, V.S. PAVLOV,,PRIME MINISTER OF THE USSR, B.K. PILTWN INTERIOR M NISTER OF THE USUR, V.A. STAROD+UBTSEV, CHAICVAN OF THE FARMES' UNION OF HHE R USSRWFZ UN A.I. TIZYAKOV, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF STAT ENTERPRISES AE INDUSTRIAL, CONSTRUCTION, TRANSIORT AND COMNINICATIONK FACILITIES OF THEUSSR, O D.T. YAZOV, DEFENCE MINISTER OF THE USSR, G.I. YANAYEV, ACOING PRESIDENT OF THE USSR. / TO ESTABLISH THAT THE USSR STATFOMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY'S DECISIONS ARE MANDATORY FOR UNSWERVING XULFIHMENT BY ALL AGENCIES OF NOWER AND ADMINISTRATION, OFFICII EAND CUTIZENS THROUGH+OUT THENTERRITORY MF THE USSR. SIGNEDC G.YANAXEV V. VNAVLOV O. BAKLANOV ITEM ENDSH P MSK 12.37 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA090 E INF 1435 TASS AC776 220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS I+ Z .URGETL A 437' TO UOM ET PEOPLE--FULL =1. (SIX TAKES) 19/8 TASS 14 MOSCOW AIGUST 19 VTASS - THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS TO THE SOV T PEOPLE HAS BEEN MADE PUBLIHHARE TODAY: +COMPATRIOTS, C CITIZENS OF THZISOVIET UNION WE ARE ABDRESYING YOU AT THE GRAVE, CRITICAL HOUR FOR THE DESTINIES OF MOTHERLAND AND OUR PEOPLES. A MORTAL DANGER HAS COME TO POOM LARGE OVER OURNGREAT MOTHERLAND. THE POLICY OF REFORMS+, LAUNCHED AT MIKHAIL S. GORBACHEV'S INITIATIVE AND DESIGNED AS UNMEANS TO ENSURE THE COUNTRY' DYNAMICDEVELOPMENT AND THE DEMOCRATIATION OF SOCIAL LIFE HAS ENTERED FOR SMR L REASONS A BLIND-ALLEY. LACK OF FAITH, APATHY AND DESPAIRNHAVE REPLAVZD TH ORIGINAL ENTHUSIASM AND HOHS. AUTHORITIES AT ALL LEVELS HAVE LOST THE POPULATION'S TRUST. POLITICKING HAS REPLACED INPUBLIC LIFE MONCERN FOR THE FATE OF MOTHERLAND AND THE CITIZEN. OIL NIOUS OUTRAGE AGAINST ALL STATE INSTITUTES IS BEIN+G IMPOSED. THE COUNTRY HAS IN FACT BACOME UNGOVERNABLE. O N HAVINGTAKEN ADVANTAGA OF THE T NTED LIBRTIES AND ENCROACHINLCBON THE FIRST SPROUTS OF DEMOCRACY, THECE HAV EO DWED EXTREMISTF+ORCESTH H VEEMBARKED OMITHE COURSE TOLARDS LIQUIDJOIMG THE SOVIET UNION, RUINING HHE STATE AND UEIZING POWAR KAT ANY COST. I THE REULTS OF THENNATIONWIDE REXERENDUM ON MOTHERLAND'S UNITY HAVE BEEN T AMPLED UPON. VYMICAL SPECUATIONS ON NATIONAL KAELINPK I MERELY A SMOKESCREEN TO SATISFY AMBITIONRWM NEITHER TOAY'S MISFORTUNES O THEIRPOPLES, NOR THEIR TOMORROW WORRQ POTITICAL ADVENTURISTS. IN CREATING AN ATMOSPHEHE OF MORAL AND POLITICAL TERHOR AND SEEKING TONHI3 3#8, THE SHIELD OF POPULA TRUST, THEY ORG T THAT THE RELATIONS THEY CONDEMN AND DISRUPT WERA ESTABLISHED ON THE BASIS OF RAROHEADER NOPULAR SUPPORT WHICH, BESIDES, HAS PASSEDTHE CENTURIESPIVLONG TEST OF HISTORY. TODAY,,OHOSE WHO ARE IN FACT WORINGNTOWARDS TH OVERTHROW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SYSTEM SHOULD BAOROUGHT TO+ ACCOUNT BEFORE MOTHERS AMD FATHERS FOR THE DEATH OF THE HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS OF INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS. THE FATE OF MORE HAN HALF A MILLION REFUGEES IS ON THEIR CONSCIENCE. THEY ARE TO OLAME FOR THE LOSS OF TRANQUILITY AND THE JOS OF LIVING OF TENS OF MPWLIONS ON FOVIET HTOPLE WHO ONLY YESERDAY LIMED IN A INNTED FAMILY ITTF S FOUND THEMSELVES LLIVING AS OUOVASTS IN THEIR OWN MOME9 PEOI E SHOULD DECIDE WHAT SOCIAL SYSTEM SHOULD EXIST, BIT TTEMPTS ARE BEIMPMIDE TO DEPRIVE THEM OF THIS R+IGHT. MORE + MSKN12.44 OAVIAQOOQ NNNN K EMSW LTE405 RPT PT KNA106#1 INF 067/)TASS BC884 RP05 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RETTUTION + Z .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION--FULL =1. (FIVE TAKES) 19/8 TASS BEE MOSCOW AUGUST 19 ASS - THE STATESCOMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF MERGENCY ISSUED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTPON NO. Q TERE TODAY: WITH A VIEW TO PROTECTING THE VITAL INTERESTS OXNTHOGVSOVLES AND CITIZENS OF THE USSR A LBAUQNBQOUNTRYPSS INENENDENCENUND TERRITORIAL INTZGRITY, RESOOING LAW ANB ORDER, STABILISING THE SITUATITN, OVERCO+MING THE GRAVEST CI IS, AND PREVENTIMGPCHAOS, ANARCHY ANDNJSFGIHVCCIDAL CIVIL WAR, THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR ETBEPPKAIFN 1. LL BMDIES ONNACHORITY AND ADMINIFTRATION OF THE USSR, UNION AND AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICS, TEVGITORIES, REGIONS, CITIES, DIYTRICTF, VILLAGES AND SETTLEMENTS HGULD ENFURE UNFAILING COMPLIANCE WITH ST TE-OF-EMERGEMCY REGULATIOS N KEE NZL WIHV ITHE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF ANFTATE OF EMEGGENCY+ AND WITH THE STATE VOMMITTEE FOR THE STATE O+F EMERLENCY'S O RESOLUTIONS. IN THE EVENT OF THEIR INABILITY TO ENSURE THE OBSERVANCE OF THESENREGULATIONS, THE POCOYS OF TMA RESPECTIVVWM BMDIES OF AUTHORITEHAND ADMINISTRATION ARE TO XE SUSPENDED, WIT + THEIR FUNCTIONS TO BE EXERCISED BY OFFIMIAL SPECIALLY APPOINTED BY TMOLYTATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCYLM 2. TO IMMEDIAT LY DISMANTLE THE STRUCURES OF POWER, ADMINISTRATION AND MILITARISSWGIWIVDLACTING CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF TH USSR. 3. TO GEGARD TME LAWU AND DEVIS+IONS BY BODIES OF POWEV AND ADMINISTRATCON THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE CONSTITUTPON APD LAWS OF TMA KSSRAS BEINGHENCEFORTH INV B. &. TO SUSPENB T E ANIVITIES ORPTITICAL PARTIES, SOCIAL TOAIUATIONS AND OASS MOVEMENTS THAT PREVENT THE NORMALISATION OF THE SITUATION. MORE OSK 12.50 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN C ZCZCKNA091 E CNF 149/8TASS DC763 E220 EN E22000 +EMEGGENCY-ADDRESS + Z .IOENTGAAADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =2. 19/8 TASS 14 INSTEAD OF SHOWING CONCERNNXOR THE SECURITY AND WLL-BEING OF EVERY CITIZEN AND ALL SOCIETY, PERSOFS THAT HAME COMETON POSITION TD POWER NOT INFREQUENTLY USE IT FOR INTERESTS ALIEN TO THE PEOPLE, AS A MEANS FOR UNSCRUPULOUS SELF-WXSERTION. TORCETS OVNWORDS AND PILES OF DEMDARATIONS AND PROMISES ONLY UNDERLINE THE SCANTY AND MEAGER NATURE OF THEIR PRACTICAL DEEDS. +THE INFLATION OFNAUTHORITY S ESTROYING OUR STAE AND SOCIETY IN A MOR FR THTEN NG WAY THAN ANYSOTHER. EVERY CITIZEN IS FEELING INCREASING UNCERTAINTY ABOUT TOMORROW AND DEEP CONCERN ABOUO THE FUTURE OF HIS OR HER CHILDREN. THE POWER CRISIS HAS HAD CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMX. #3 NHAOTIC, SPONTANEOUS SLIDE TOWARDU A MACKET VROVOKE AN EXPLOSION OF EGOISM 7- REVIMCAL, DEPARTMENTAL, VROUP AND PSRSONAL. THE WAR OF LAWS AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF CENTRIFUGAL TENDENCIEF SPELLEDNDESTRU+CTION OF THE INTEGRAL NATIONAL ECONOMIC MECHANISM THAT HAS ZN SHAP NG FOR DCADES.,THE RESULT NNTUDES SHARP DROPS IN THE LIVING STAND TSJIIKWLTHE VAST MAJORITY OF MPA SOVIET PEOPLE, AB THE +BLOSSOMING OF PROFITEERINL AND THE SHABOWNECONOMY. IIS HIGH TIME PEOPLE WERE TOLD THA TRUTH: IF URGENT AND DECISIVE MEASURES ACE NOT ADOPTED TO STABILISE THE ECONOMY,, HUNGER AND ANOHER SIIRAL OX IMPOVERISHMENOHACE IMMINENT IN THE NEARFUTURE9 FROM WHICH IT IFNJUUT A STEP FROM MASS MANIFESTAIONS OG SPON+TANEOUS DISCONTENT WITH DEVASTATING CONSEQCS WJPHKL ONL IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE CAN BANK ON SOME AID FROM ABROAD. N NO HANDWIOUTS CAN SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS, OUR RESCUE PS IN OUR OWN HANDS. THE TIME HAS COM TO MEASURE THE AUHOVKTY OFMEVERY PZHSON AND ORGANISATION BY T EIR REAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REHABILITATION AND FOELOPMENT OD THE NATION ECONOMY. FOR LONG YEARS, WE HWVE HEARD INCANTITIONS F OM ALL SIDES ABOUT THE COMMITMENT TO THE INTERESTS OFAOZWIJIIIDUAL AND CONCERN FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGH+TS AND SOCIAL SECURITY. IN FACT, MAN HAS FOUMD HIMSELF HUMILIATED AND DZSPERATE, HIS REAL RIGHTS AND POSSIBILITIZFSINFRINGED UPON. ALL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS CREATED BY THE POPULAR WILL ARE LOSING WEIGHT AND EFFECTIVENESS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. THIS IS A RESULT OF PURPOSEFUL ACTIONS BY THOSE WHO, GROSSPYMVUOT TING KHE FUNDAMENTAL LWW OF THE USUR9 ARE EFFECTIVELY I THEPROCESS OF STAGINV AN ANTICONSTUTUTITNAL COUP AND STRIVING KOR UNBRILEJ PRFON L XICTATORIAL POWSRS. PHEFECOURES, MAYOR+ALTIESUZJAIUVGER ILLEGAL STRUCTURES ARE INCREASING Y RE L NCNG, DE FACTO, O POPULARLY-ELECTED GOC RNING COUNCILS. MORE + MSK KTU QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA092 E INDFPYQT TASS AC771 E220 EN E210001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + Z O N .URGENTL ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--=,7)) =3. 19/8 TASS 14 N AN OFFENSIVE NYAP JJIFDCNXLON THE RCGHTS OF WORKING PEOPLE. THE GHTS TO WORK, DUCATION, HEALTH, HOUSING AND LEISURE ARE IN GJEOPARDY. VEN THENEQEMENTARY PERSONAL SECURITY OF PEOPLE IS INCREASINGLY UNDER THREAT. CRIME IS FAST ON ZHE INCREASE, GETTING ORGANISED AND PO CISED. THENCMUNTRY IS SINKING INTO THE QUAGMIVA OF VIOLENCE AND WLESSNESS. NEVER BEFORE +IM NATIONAL HISTORY HAS THE PROPAGANDA OF SEX O ANB VIOLENCE ASSUMED SUCH A SCALE, TMREATENINGMOMOLHEALTH AND B LIVES OF FITURE GENERATIONS. MIL CONS OF PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING MEASURES AGAINST THE OCTOPUS OF CRIME JND GLARING IMMORALITY. TMA IMCREAYING DEEABILISATION OF THE PO NTICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE SOVIET UNION IS UNDERCUTTING OUR POSITIONS IN THE WOLD. REVANCHIST NOTES ARE TO BE HEARD IN SOME PLACES AND DEMANDS ARE BEING MADE FOR A REVIEW OF OUR BOHSJ SDKLVVUCGBLCAMN EVEN BE EARD SPEA+NING OF DISMEMBERINGT TVIET UNION AND OF THE POSSNBILITY OF ESTABLISHING INTECUOIONAL GCAR:7:'#80 OVER INDIVIDUAL FUCILITIES AND REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. SIC IS THE BITTER REALITY. W+HEREAS ONTZ ZSTERDUY A UOVIET PERSON FINDING HIMSELF ABROAD FELT HIMSELFIJ WORTHY CITIZEN OF AN INFLUENTIAL AND RESVFCTED STUTE,.NOW HE IS OFTEN A SECOND-RATE FOREIGMER, THE ATTITUDE TO WHOM I M RKED BY EITHER CONTEMPT OR ISYMPATHY. THE PRIDE UND HONOUR OF SOVN AUIQNV)3.7'5 BE REETOTED IN FULL. NFIMOGJW MRX PKQNK119-08-1998 NNNN XQPKVVV ZVBC RPT RPT RPT KNA7)3 Q INF 0679 TASS ED052 RPPT EN E9.9PQ +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + Z .STATGATF-EMERGENCRTOM TTEE'S RESOLUTION--FULL =2. 19/8 TASS 33 5. IN CONNACTION WITH THE FACT THAT THE STATE CTOMITTEE FOR E STATOF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR TEMPORA Y ASSUMES FUNCTQONS OF THE USER SECURITY COMMITTEE, THE AKTIVITY OF THE LATTER IS SUSPENDED. 4+=:858+3,', INSTITKTIONS AND ORGANISATITO OULD HAND IN WITHOUT DELUY ALL TYPES MXMFCCE-ARMS, MUNITIOS, EXPLOSIVES, MILITARY HARDWARE A+ND EQUIPMENT INPLMEIR UN GHTIIUKBBOOBWON. THE INTERIOR MINISTRY, THE KGZ AND THE DEFENVEHMINISTRY OF THE USSR SHTULB SECURE STRICT COMPLI NCE WITH THISEDVAND..8, CASE OF REFUSAL, TO CONFNSCATE THEM IN A COMPULSTJY ORE AND BRING OFFENDERS TO STRICT CRCMINAL AND ADMIN STRATIVE ACCOUNT. 7. THEPROSECUTOR'S OFF CE, THE INTEJIOR ONISTRY, THE KGB AND THE DEFENCE MINISTHY OF THE USSR SHOULD ORGANISE EFFECTIVE INTRACTION OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT BODIES AND THE ARMED FORCES TO ENSURE PROTECTION OF PUBLIC+ ORDER AMB SECURITY OF THE STATE, SOCIETY AND CITIZENS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF THE STATE TF EMERGENCY+ UND RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENM+Y IN THE USSR. RALL ER,STREET MARCHES, DEMONSTRATIONS AND STRIKES ARE NOT ALLOWED. IN CASE OF NEED, TO INTRODUCE CURFEW, PATROL TERRITORY, CONDUCTNEXAMINATION AND ADOPT MEASURES FOR ENHANCING THE BORDER AND CUSTOMS REOIMEM TO ESTABLISH CONTRO , AND IN NECESSARY CASES PROTECTION, OVER MAJOR+,STATE ND ECTOOVIC FACILITIES, AND LIFE-SUPPORTSYETEMSGM RESO UTELY TO CURB THE DISSEMIN TION OF INIGATORY RUMOURS AND ACTIONS PROVOKING VIOLATIONS OF LAW AND ORDJR AND KIN IOG OF INTERAETHNIC STRIFE, DISOBEDIEVCE TO OFFICI L SECURING OBSERVANCE OF THE YTATE OF EMERGENCY RELULATIONS. O MORE VMSK 13.=7,19-08-1991 OZAAM ZCZC VRPT RPT RPT KNA124 Q INF 0666 TASS BD103 RP05 EN E999001 ZEMERGENCR-RESOLUTIO + Z .STATE-OF-AMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S SOLUTION--FULL =3. 19/8 TASS 33 8. TO EETABLI H CONTROL OMER THE MASS MEDIA, ENTRUSTINGITO AN GENCY SPECIALQY FET UP UNDER THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENVY. 9. BOJI S OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRUTION AND ADS OF ORXN2'-589,' A NTERPRISEDKLSHOULD AKE MEASURES TONINCRUASE ITRGANISAT ON AND RESTOREORDER AND DISCIPLINE TO APL ASPECTS OF OLPUBLIC LIE+. TO ENSRE THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF ENTERPRISES IN ALL SECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, THE STRICT FULFILMDNT OF MEASUVES TO PRESERVE ANDNGESTORE, FTR THENSTABILIFAION PERIOD VERTICAL AND HORIZONTALNTIES BETWEN SUBECTS OF CONOMIC MANAGEMENT THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSRN AND THE UNFAILING ACHIEVEMENT OF PLAONED IDWETS REGARDING PVODUCTION AND SUPPLIES OF HAW ANB OHER MATERIALS AND COMHTNENTS. TO ESTABL SH AND MAINTAIN AUSTERITY ARRANHEMENTS CONCERNING THE USE OFNMATERIALSLN EQUIPVPZET UND FOREIGN CU RENCY, AND TO IVWORK OUT AND IMPPEMENT SPECIFIC MEASURES TO COMBAT MISMANAGEMENT AND THE SQUANDERING OF PUBLICNWEALTM. TO WAGE A OECISIVE TRUGGLE AGAINST THE SHADOW ECONOMY AND ? IMEXORABLY ENXORCE OEASURES OFNCRIMINAL AND ADMIMISTRITIV RESPONSIBILITY IN INST NCES OK CORRUPTION, TMEXTGN PGOFITEEING, GOODS CONCEALMENT, BUNGLAD MANAVEMENT ND OTHEG ECONOMINNIWRONGDOING. I TO CREUTE FAVOURABLE CONDIT ONS FTR ALL DORMF OF ENTERPR SELITHAT COMPLX WITM THE LAWS OF THE USSR TO INCREAS+E THEIR REAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COUNTRY'S ECONTMIC POTNTIAL AND MEET VITAL POPULAR NEEDS. 10. TONCONSIDER REGULAC WORK ON STRUCTUREE OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION INCOMPATIBLE WITH MOONLIVHTING IN ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPACITZGM TD,' MOR H MSK 23.12)19-08-19918NNNN ZCZCKNK093 E CNF 0708 TASS CC680 E228EN E2200025 +EMRGENCY AJDROGBL + TZ N .URGENT -7 ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--ULL =4. N 19/:8TASS 14 N THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EOERGENCIN THE USSR IS KULLR AWARE OF THE DEPTH OF THE CRISIS THAT MAS AFFLICTED TH COUNTRYN IT TAKES UPO ITSELF THE RESPONSIBILITXFOR THE FATE OF THE COUNTRY ANJ IS FULLY DETERMINED TM TAKZ MOSTPEERITU MEASURES O TAKE THE STATE AND SOCIEY OUT OF THE CRISCS AS SOON AS POKSIBLE. WE PRTMISE TO HOLD A NATIONWCDE DIUCUS+SION OF OHE DRAFT NEL 7 ION TREATY. EACH INDIVIDUALIWILL HAVE THERIGHT AND OPPORTKNITY TO THINK OER TMIS MAJTR ACT AND EFINEHNS ATTITUTOLTOWARD IT. BECUUSENTHESFATE OF NUMEROUS PEOILES OF OUR GREAT MMTHEGLAND IILP DEPEND OC WHAT THE SOVIET UNION WCLL BE LIKE. O WE INTEND TO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER STRAIGHT AWAY, END BLOODSHED, DECLARE A W R WITHOUT MERCZ TONTHEPCGIMINIL QOMLD, ERABUCATE SHAMEFUL PHENOMENA BNFCREJITING OUR SOCIETY KND DAGRADING OVIET CITIZEXS. WE SHALLNCLEAN THE STRZETS OF OUR +CITIES FROM CR MINAL ELEMENTSNANB PUT AN END TO ARBITRARINESS OF THE EQUANDERERS OFNTHE NATIONAL LEALTH. O WE KAVOUR GENUINE DEMOCCATIC VRONESSES ANCONSISTENT REFORM POLICY LEAGINGTO THE RE3,2-) OF OUR MOTHERWA D9 IS ECONOMCC AFD SOCIAL PROSPERITY WHICH WILL ENAOLEIT TO TAKE A WORTHY PLACE IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONS. THE COUNTR'S EVELOPMDNT MUFT NOT BE BIILT UVON THE JECLINING ST MDARDS OK LIVINGNOF THEIPEGPLE. A CONSISTENT RISE IN ITHE LIVING STANDARDS OF ALLNCITIZENS WILL BECOME +THE NMRM INNA HEALTHY SOCIETY. WITHOUT REDUCING CARE FORSTRENGTHENING AND PROTECTING THE INTERESTS OF THE WIDEST LAYERDLOF THZ POPULATION, TMOSA WHO ACE HE HARGEST HIT TY INLATION, PRODUCTION DIETRGANISATION, CORRUPTION AND CRIOE. DEVELTPING E MAY-TIER CHARAMTER OF THE NACONAL ECONOMY, WE D SHALL SUPIORT PRIVTE ENTERPGISE, GRANTING IT NECESSARY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION AND SERVICAS. N MORE MSK 13.17 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN VZCZC RPTN RPT RPTI KNA127 Y INF 07 PNASS ED133 RP05 EN E999001 +EMERGENCYARESOLUTIMM + Z .STIEE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE RESOLUTION -- FULL =4.: N 19/8 TASS WEE O 11. VTHE CABINET OF MINISTERF IS HEREBY INETRICTE TO TAKE STOCK OF ATL AVAILABLE RESOCRCES OF OOB AND OTHRERSZNTIAL 9 O REPOGT TOITHE PEOPL WAO THE VOUNTRY HAS AT ITS DISPTS L, VTAKEM UNDAR STRICT CONTROL THEIR PRESERV TION END DISTRIBICIK(L ANY RESTRICTIONS ASTAOLISHED TO PREVENT TRANSPORTATION ACROUS THENUSRR TEJRITORY OF+ GOODTUFF ND VONSUMOY GOODS,,AS WELL ISI MATERIAL RESOUCCES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION, HOULDNBS PRTCACMED NKLLN WR VOID, EXERSISINV DIPIGENT CONTROL OVER THE OBSERVANCE OF THIS OGDER. SPECIAL ATTENTION SHOUPD BENPAID TO PRCORITY SUPPLIES TO PRE-SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENTS, ORPHANAGES, SCHOOLS, SNCIALIZED SECONDARY AD HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESABLISHMENTSNAND HOSPITALS, AS WELL ASNPANSIONERS ANDNDISABLED PECSONS., PROPOSALS SHOULDBE SUBMITTED WITHIN A WEEK FOR STREAMLINING, GFJEAZING OR REDUCING PRICES+FO CERTAIN CATEGORIEU OF CONSIMER GOOS ANDNFOOJSTCFFS - FIRST OF ALLNTHOSE INTENDEJ FORNCHILDREN - EVERZBAX SERVICES AND PUTLIC CATERING, AS WALL AS RAISING WAGES,, PENSIONS AND COMPEN ATION SUMS TO+ DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF CITIZENS. MEASURES SHOULBE LORKED OUT WITHIN TWO WEEKS TO STREAMLINE THA SIZ OF PAY TO THE LEADEVS A ALL LEVELS OF STATE, PUBLIC, COOPEGATIVE OR OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS, ORGANISAT ONS AND ENTERVJISES. 12. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT T E CRITICAL SITUAOIMN IN HARVESING AND TH+E THREAT OF FAMINE, EXTRAORBIMARYNME DIBLEHOULDNBE TAKEN TO ORHANISE THE IROCUREMENT, STORAGE AND PROCESSINV OF FARM PRODUCE. MAXIMUM AID SHOULD BC RENDRED TGALRICULTURAL WORKERS BQ PJOVCEINGMMACHINARY, SPA E PARTS, FUELNAND LUBRICANTS, ETC. ENTERP ISE AND OFFICEWOCKERS AND EMPPOEESGN RTUDENTS AND SERVICEMEX IN NECESFARY NIMBERS FHOULD BE PJOMPTLY SANTNTO THE COUNTRY TO SAVE THENHARVESTM MORE KMSK 1-.23 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN VVTVWCZCKNA094,3 INFN0705 TASS DC749 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ABDRESS + Z WMURGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =5. 19.8 TASS 14 R N OUR PRIME CONCERN IS THE SOLUTIOM OF THE FOOE ACD HOUSING PROBLEMS. ALL VAILABLE FORCES WILL BE MOBILIZED TO MEET THESE, THE MOST ESSENTIAL NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE. WE ARE CALLING UPON WORKERSGN PEASANTSON WORKING INT LLIGENTSIA, ALL SOVIET PEOPLE TO RESTTRE, WITHIN THE BRIEFEST PERIOD OF TIME, LABOUR DISCIPLINE AND ORDER, RAISE THE LEVEL OF PRODUCT ON IN ORDER+ TO RESOLUTELY MARCH AMEAD. OUR LIFE AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANGCHILDGEM, THE FATE OF THEN MOTHERLAND DEPEND ON THIS. WE ARE A PEACE-LOVING COUNTRY ANB SHALL UMDEVIATINGLY HONOUR ALL OUR COMMITMENTS. WE HAVE NO CLAIMSNTO MAKE AGAINST ANYBODY. WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WCTH ALL. BUT WE FIRMLY DECLARE THAT NO ONE WILL BE EVER ALLOWED TO ENCROACH UPON OUR SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY. ALL ATTEMPTS LO TALK THE LANGUAGE OF DIKTAT TO OUR COUNTRY, NO MA+ZTER WMERE THEYIMIY COME FROM, WILL BE RESOLUTEL SUPPRESSED. OUR MULTINATIONAL PEOPLE HUS LIVED FOR CENTURIES PROUD OF THEIRNMOTHERLAND, WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ASHAMED OF OURNPATRIOTIC FEELINGS AND WE HOLD IT NATURAL AND RIGHTFUL TO RAISE THEPRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT POWER IN THIS SPIRIT. TO REMAIN INACTIVE AT THIS HOUR MF CRISIS FOR THE FATE OF THE MOTHERLAND MEANS TO TAKE UPON ONESELFTHE HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TRAGIC, TRULY UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUEOCES. EA+CH INDIVIDUAL WHO HOLDS OUR MOTHERLAND DEAR, WHO WANTS TO LIVE AND WORK IN PEACE AND CONFIDENCE, WHO DOES NOT ACQUIESCE TO THE CONTINUATION OF THE BLOODY INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS, WHO SEES HIS MOTHERLAMD INDEPENDENT AND PROSPERING IN TH FUTURE MUST MAKE THE ONLY RIGHT CHOICE. WE CALL ON ALL TRKE PATRIOTU, PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL TO PUT AN END TO THE PRESENT TIME OF UNCERTAINTY. I MORE MSK 13.28 QOAPIAQOOQO NMNN ZCZC RPT RPT RPT KNA129 Q INF #544 TASS AD491 RP05 ENE999001 +EMERGENCY-RUSGLUTION + Z .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE RESOLUTION -- FULL = TM 19/8 TASS 33 13. THE CABINET OF MINISTECS IS HEREBY INSTRUCTED TO WORK OUT, WITHIN A WEEK, A GESOLUTION TO ENSURE THE PROVISION IN 0991 AND 1992 OF PLOTS OF LAND FOR FRUIT AMD VEGETABLE-GROWING, MEASURIOG UP TO O,15 HECTARE, TO EACH AND EVERY CITY DWELLER WHO SO WISHES. 14. THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OFHTHE USSR SHOULD COMPLETE, WITHIN TWO WEEKZS, THENDRAWING UP OF PLAMS FOR EMERGENCY MEASARES TO BD TAKEN TO PULL THE COUNTRY!S FUOB-AND-POWER COMPLEX OUT OF THE CRISIS AND PREPARE FOR THE WINTER. 15. PRUCTICAL MEASKRES FOR 7992 SHOULD BE PREPARED AND REPORTED TO THE PEOPLE TO RADICALLY IMPROVE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION AND ENSUGE THE PROVISION OF HOUSING TO PEOPLE. APCICFWN UIX MONTHS, A PRACTCCAL PROGRAMME SHOULD BE WORKED OUT TO EXPEDITE THE DEVELOPMENT TF STATE, COOPERATIVE AND INBQVIDUAL HOUSE-BUILDINGNIN THE NEXT IVAYEARS. 86.5 IT IS HEREBY MADE INCUMBENT ON THE VAMTRAL AND LOCAL BODIES OF AITHORITY AND GOVERNMENT TO PAY PRIORITY ATTENTION TO PEOPLE'S SOCNAL NEEDS AND PINPOINT AREAS FOR SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT OF FREE HEALT+H SERVICES AND PUBLIC EDUCATION. ITEM ENDS MSK 13.32 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA096 E INF 0173 TASS AC763 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + Z .UGVENT -- ADDRESF TO SOVIET PEOPLE2-FULL =6. 19/8 TASS 14 WE CALL ON ALL CITIZENS OF THE SOVIET UNIO TO GROW AWAJE OF THEIR DUTY B FORE THE COUNTRY AND RENDER ALL PORYLPKCOLASSISTANCE TO THE STAZE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OFNEMERGENCY IN THE USSR AND EFFORTS TO PULL THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE CRISIS. V CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALS FROM SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS, WOJK COLLECTIVES AND INDIVIDUALS WILL BE APPRECIATED AS THE S+HOW OF THEIR PATRIOTIC READINESS T AITIVLY PARTICIPUTE IN THE RESTORATION OF THE CENTURY-OLD FRIENDSHIP IN THE SINGLE FAMILY OF AFRATERNAL PEOPLES ANE THE REVIVAL OF THE MOTHERLAND. THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR N AUGUST 18, QOOQZ ITEM ENDS MSK 13.35 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN BVV ECZCKNIFPOKNA INX 0211 TASS CC679 E220 EN E22000:5 +UNION-YANAYEV + Z .VIVKNPRESIDENT YANAYEV TAKES OVER AS ACTCNG PRESIDENT. 19/8 TASS 25 MOSCOL AUGUST 19 TASS - IN A DECREE MADE IUBLIC IN THE SOVIET UNION TTLAY, VICE-VESIDENT GENNADY YANAEV ANNOUNCED THAT MIKHAIL TORBUVHEV IS UNABLE TO PERFORM HIS DUTIEEAS N IONAL PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH REASONS. ON THE TRENGTH OF ARTICLE 127, CLAUSE 7, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION, YANAYEV, TRN ASSUMED TTE DUTIES OF SOVIET PRESIDENT FROM AUGUST 19, QOOQM WZ THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP TODAY RELEASED A STATEMENT ANNOUNCING THE DECISION TO IMPOSE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME PARTS OF THE USSR FOR A PERIOJ OF FIX MONTHS, IN EFFECT FHOM 4:00 AM MOSCOW TIME, AUGUST 19, QOOQN AND DECLARING THAT THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR TAKE UNCONDIMIONAL PRECEDENCE THROUGHOUT SOVIET TERRITORY. TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY AND EXERCISE WITH EFFICIENCY FTATE OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS, A DECI ION HAS BEEN ADOPTED TO SET UP A OASTATE COMMITTEE FOV THE SATE OF EMRGENCY INH=3 USSR. TME ROVIET LEADERST P'S STATEMENT INDICATES THAL DECISIONS BY TH COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY A E MANDATTYIFOR ALL BODIES TN AUTHORITZ AND GOVERNMENT, OFFICIALS AND CITIZ+ENS THROUGHOUT SOVIET TERRITTRY. THE STATEMENT PAS BEE SIGNED ZS YANAYEV, STVIET PRIME N MINISTER VALENTIN PAVLOV AND FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE DEFENCE COUNCIL O EG BAKLANOV. ZAIIIAPNDBOATEMENT C RCULAED THIS MORNIN, ANATOLY LUKYANOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET, CRITICISED THE PUBLISHE TEXT +O THE UNION TREATY. LUYANOV OBSERVED TTAT THE SUPREME SOVIET'K REMARKS ABOUT THE EXPEDIENCY OF ENVISAGING IN THE DRAFT UNION TREATY THE EXISTENC OF A SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE, A SINGLE B NKING SYSTEM AND THE PRESERVATION OF UNION PROPERTY, DEMAND FOR THE FIXATION OF INDEPENDENT TAX DEDUCTIONS INTO THE UNION BUDGETNUND SEVERAL VOTHER PROVISIONS WERE NOT DULY REFLECTED IN THE TEXT. ALL TH YR IUFVVBEMS, LUKYANOV STATED, DEMAOD ADDIIONAL DISCUSSIONS AT THE USSRSIPREME SOVIETAND THEN, PROBABLY, ZAT THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES. YANAYEP'S ADDRES TO HEADS OF STATE AND G=34,.3,5 AND THE U.N. SECRETARYAGENERAL WAS MADE PUBLIC IN MOSCOW TODAY. YANAYEV EMPHASCSED THAT THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEASURES IN NO WAY AFFACT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS ASSUMED BX THE SOVIET UNION UODER EXIETING TREATIES AND AGREEM NTS THE USSRIS PRPARED TO ZEVE OP ITSRELATIONS WITH ALL STATES ON THE BASIS OF UNIVERALLY RECOGNISED PRINCIPLES OF GOOD- NEIGHBOURLINESF, EQUALITY, MUTUA BENEFIT AND+ NON-INTERFERENCE IN ONE ANOTMER'S AFFAIRS. Y NAYEV XPRESSED CONFIDENCE LHAT THE CURRENT DIFFICULTIES ARE TRANSITORY IN CHARACTER AND THE SOVIET UNI+ON'S CONT IBUTION TO PRESERVING PEACE AND CONSOLIDATING ITERNATIONAL SECURIT WILL REMAIN SUBSTANTIALGM STHE OVIET LEADERSHIP HOPES, THE ADDRESS SAZS, TAT THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEASURES WILL FIND PROPER UNDERSTANDIMG OM TH PART OF PEOPLES AND GOVARNMENTS AND THE UNITEJ NATIONS TRGANCSATION. THE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN TLVHE USSR, INNAO APPEAL TO THE SOVIET PEOP E, DECLARED THIT CT ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOV THE FATE OF MOTHERLAND AND IS FULLY R SOLVED TO UNDERTAKE MOST SEVUOUS MEASURES TOWLEAD THE STATE AND FONIETY OU OF KRISIS. +WE ADVOCATE TRULY GOVOCRAIC PROCESSES AND CONSISTENT REFORM PO ICIES HELPING KPDATE BUR MOTHERL OSAPNJGLACHIEVE ITS ECONOMIC AND SOCQAL PROSPERITY, WHICH WILL ENABLE IT TO TAKE A WORTHY PLACE IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONS,+ THE COMMITTEE'S ADDRESS SAID. +WE ARE A PEACE-L+OVING NATION AND WILP UNFAILINGLY HONOUR ALL ASSUMED COMMITMENTS,+ THE COMMITTEE STRESSED. +-,5 ATTEMITS AT TALKING TO OUR COUNTTY IN THE LANGUAGE OF EICTATES NO MATTER BY WHOM, WILL BE DECISIVELY CUT SHORT,+ IT ADDED. ITEM ENDS MSK 13.45 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN V ZCZCKOA107 E CNF 0105 TASS BD051 E999 EN E999001 +GORBCHEV-ZANAYEV + Z MURGEN--DECREE BY SOVNET VICE-PRESIDENT--FULL. 19/8 TASS 11 MOSCO AUGUST 19 TASS - IN CONNECTION WITH THEMINABILITY FOR HEALTH REASONS LY MIKHAIL SERGEYVICH GORBACHEV TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES AS USSR PRESIDENT, I HAVE ASSUMED THECDUTIESMOFUESR VPRESNSJIAUPWAM AUGUST 19, QOOQ ON THE BASIS OF ARTICLE 127 KUL OF THE U SR CGNSTITUTION. GENNADY I. YANAYEV VICE-NRESIDENT OF TE USSV UGUST18, QOOPEMZ V ITEM ENDS MSK 13.47 QOAPIAQOOQVNNNN V ZCZCKNA10: E NF 1484 TASS NC901 E999 EN E999001 +LEADERSHIP-STATEMENT VT+ ZZ .SOVIET LEADERSHIP'S STATEMENT--FULL. 19/8 TASS 13 MOSCOW AUGUFT 19,TASF - FOLLOWS THE FULL STATEMENT BYNTHE VSOVIET LEADERSHIP: IN VIEW OF MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV'SINABILITY, FOR HEALTH REASONS, TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF THE USSR HRESIBENT AND OOTHE TJINSFER OF THE USSRNPRESIDENO'S POWERS, IN KEEPING WITH PAR GRAPH 7, ARTICLE 127, OF THE USSR CONSTITQTCON, TO USSR VICE- PRESIDENT GENNADY IV+ANOVICH Y NAYEV, -- WITH THE AIM OF OVERCOMING THE PROFOUND ANDNCOMPREHENSIVE CRISIS, POLITCCAL, ETHNIC AND CIVIL STRIFE, CHAOS AND ANARCHY THAT THREATEN THE LIVES AND SECURITY OF THE SOVIET UNION'S CITIZENS AND THB SOVEREIGNTYPN TERRITORY INTEGRITY, FREEDOM AND INDEPENDNCE OK OUR FATHERLAND, -- P TCEEBING FROM THE RESULTS OX THE NATIONWIDE REFERENDUM ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE UOION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, -- AND GUIDED BY THE VITAL INTERESTS OF ALL ETHNIC GROUPS LIVING IN OUR F+ATHERLAND AND ALL SOVIET PEOPLE, WE RESOLVE: 1. IN ACCORDANCE WITH PARAGRAPH 3, 7458:)3 127, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION AND ARTICLE 2 OF THE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF A STATE OF +EMERGENCY+ AND WITH DEMANDS BY BROAD POPULAR MASSES TO ADOPT THE MOST DECISIVE MEASURES TO PRECENT COCIETY FROM SLIBING INTO NATIONAL CATASTROPHE AND ENSURE LAW AND ORDER, TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IM SOME PARTS OF THE SOVIET UNION FOR SIX MONTHS FROM 04:00 MOSCOW TIME ON AUGUST 19, QOOQM 2. TO ESTABL+ISH THAT THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR HAVE UNCONDITIONAL PRIORITY THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR. 3. TO FORM A STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGNCY IN THE USSR IN ORDER TO RUN THE COUNTRY AND EFFECTIVELY EXERCISE THE STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGIME, CONSISTING OF: O.D. BUKLANOV, FCRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF TE USSR DEFENCE COUNCIL, V.A. KRYUCHKOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE KGB, V.S. PAVLOV, PRIME MINISTER OF THE USSR, H B.K. PUGO, INTERIOR MINISTER OF THE USSR, V.A. STARODU+BTSEV, CHAIRMAN OF THE FARMERS' UNION OF THE USSR, A.I. TIZYAKOV, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENTERPRISES AND INDUSTRIAL, CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES OF THE USSR, D.T. YAZOV, DEFENCE MINISTER OF THE USSR, G.I. YANAYEV, ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE USSR. 4. TO ESTABLISH THAT THE USSR STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY'S DECISIONS ARE MANDATORY FOR UNSWERVING FULFILM NT BY ALL AGENCIES OF POWER AND ADMINISTRATION, OFFICIALS AND CITIZENS THROUGHO+UT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR. SIGNED: G.YANAQEV V. PAVLOV N O. BAKLANOV NITM ENDS + MSK 13.54 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA109 E INF 0605 TASS AD100 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR 3++ O .URGENT -- STATEMENT LY CHACRMAN OF SOVCET SUPREME SOVIET. (THREE TAKES) 19/8 TASS 6 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS -)FOLLOWS THE FULL TEXT OF THE STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVIET SUPREME SOVUET: +IN CONNECTION WITH NUMEROUS LETTERS FROM WORKERS REQUESTINV M TO EXPRESS MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DRAKT TRAATY OF UMION OF SOVEREIGN STATES PUBLISHED THREE DAYS AGO, I CONSIDER IT NECESSARY TO DECLAR+E THE FOLLOWING: THE DRAFT T EATY WAS SUPPORTED ON THE WHOLE BY THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET ON JULY 12, QOOQM THE SUPREME SOVIETHAS FORMED A PLENIPOTENTIARY UNION DELEGATION AND AUSIGNED IT TO PROCED, IN ADDING FINAL TOUCHES TO AND COORDNNATING THE DRAFT TREATY, FROM A NUMBER OF PROVIS ONSNFORMULATED BY THE SUPREME BODY OF AUTHORITY IN THE COUNTRY. FIR T OF ALP, THE NEED WAS STRESSED TO REFLECT N THE TITLE AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THEHTREATY THE RESULTS OF THE ALL-UNION O REFR NDUM IN THE COUR+SE OF WHICH TE ABSOLUTE MAJORPTY OF THE COUNTRY'S CITIZENS SUPPORTED THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUB ICS AS A RBNOVATED FEDERATION OF EQUAL SOVEREIGN REPUBLICS. A SIMI+LAR EIPOACH TO THE TILE AND CARUCTER OF THE UNION FTATE WAS FMRMULATED BY THA CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'R DEPUTIES OX THE UFSR. T DETAILED ARGUMECTATION OF THIS POSITION OF THE USSR SUPREME O SOVIET WAS MADE AT A MEETING OK THE HEADS OF PENIPOTENTIARY DELEGATIONS IN NOVO-OGAREVO,+ THE STATEMENT READS. MO+RE MEK 13.59 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN V VZCZCKNA110 E INF 0535 TAS AD082 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + Z .URGENT -- STATEMENTBY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET =2. O GQOXI TAKS 6 +NONETHELESS, IT WAS NOT REFLECLEB IN THE FINAL TEXT OF THE TREATY. NATURWLGYWN THIS ISSUE WCLL UNDOUBTEDLY DEMAND XTRA DISCUSSION BY THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLES DEPUTIE)9/ THE USS AND, PROB BLY, MAN ALL8/7,89, REFERENDUM CONNECTED WITH THE ADOPTION OD U NEW CONSTITUTION. THE USSR UPREME SOVIET FOUND IT EXPEDIENT TO ENVISAT+E I THE DRAFT UNION TREAY THE PRESENCE IN THE USSR OF A K OGLE ECOMOMIC SPACE, A SINGLE BANKING SYSTEM AND THE PRESERVATION AS PROPERTY OF THE UNION THE PROPETY THAT IS EQUIRAD FOR UTS NORMAL FUNCTIONING AS A FEDERAL STATE. THE DEMAND FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF INDEPENDENT TAX DEDUCTIOFS INTO THA UNION OUDGET WAS STIPULATED SPECIALLY., REGRETTABLY, THESE MAJOR PROVISIONS WERE NOT SUFFICIENTLY CLAR REFLECTEL IN THE PUBLISHED TEXT OF THE TREATY. THIS IS ALSO EVIDENCED FROM RENENTNSTATEMNTS +BY THE USSR CABINET OF MINISTERS, THE BOARD OF THE USSR STATE BANC AND SEVERAL OTHER UNION BODIES. THISNWILL PROBKBLY DEMAND CONSIDERABLE AMENDMEMTS TO THE TEXT OF THE TREATY,+ THE STATEMENT SAYS. MORE MSK 14.02 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA111 E VINF 0705 TASS DD032 EBOOT EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR Z N .URGENO -- STATEMENT BY CAIRMAN OF SOVIETNSUPREME SOVCET =3. M 19/8 VTAS GY +THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET PAID EXCLUSIVELY SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THE TERMINATION OF THE SO-CALLED ?WAR OF AWS+, NN FACT GLARING LAWLESSNESS. IN THIS CONNECTION, A NORMFAS PROPOSED FOR O INCLUSION INTO THE TREATY TO VRVENT THE SUSHENSION BY THE USSR OF REPUBLICAN LAWS AND BY+ THE REPUZLICS OF UNION LAWS, AND THE RESOLUTION OF PTSSIBL DISPUTESNTHROUGH CONCIPCATORY PROCEDURES OR RULITS BY THE USSR CONSTITUTIONAL COURT. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THIS PROPOSAL WAS BACKED BYNLEADING SOVIETMWAWYERF, IT NAILED TO FIND PROPER REFLECTION IN THE TEXT OF THE TREATY PREPARED N NOVO-OGAREVOWM VTHERE IS NO NEED TO PROVE HOW DANGEROUS THIS ISNFOR THE FORM TION OF A STABLE LEGAL SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRY. THE ORDER OF IMPLEMENTING THE TREATY DU ING TE TRANSITIOMAL PERIOD TO SECURE C+ONTINUITY IN THE OPERATION OF BODIES OF STATE AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT DEMANDS A CONSIDERABLY CLEARER DEFINITION IN THE TREATY. WITHOUT THIS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN, AT LEAST O THE MINIM+UM EXTENT.8THE FUNCTIONING OK THENATIONAL ECONOMY IN THE EXTREMELY GRAVE CRISIS SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY. ALL THESE PROBLEMS DEMAND, IN MY OPCVION, EXTRANDISCUSSION AT A SESSION OF THE USSR XUPREME SOVIET ANDCTHEN, PROBABLY, AT THE CONGRSSS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR. WITHOUT THIS, SUCH U DO+CUMENT OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO THE DESTINIES OF OUR STATE AS THE UNION TREATY CANNOT KULLY REFLECT THE SOVIET PEOPLE'S WILL TO PRESERVE THE USSR, A GREAT POWER CALLED UPON TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF CITIZENS F ALL NATIONALITIES AND EXERTING MOST SERIOUS INFLUENCE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLDGM A.,LUKYANOV KN CHAIRMANCOF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZ ITEM ENDS MSK 14.08 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZMKNA1123 INF 0160 TASS BD04 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-YANAYEV + Z .YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT, UN =19 (TWO TAKES) 19/8 TASS 12 MTSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OK VICE-PRESIDENT OENNADY YANAYEV'S ADRES TO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT AND THE U.N. SECRETARY-?&3,34-): +AT THE INSTRUCTION OF TME SOVIET LEADERSHIP I TMEREBY NOTIFY THAT A STATE OF EMERGENCY IS INTRODUCEB IN INDIVIDUAL LOCALITIES OF THE UNIONEF SOVIEFOCIA+LIST REPUBLICS FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS FROM AUGUST 19, QOOQ IN KEEPING WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR. ALL POWER IN THE COUNTRY IS TRANSFERRED FOR THIS PERIOD TO THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR. MORE MSK 14.10 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN E RVZCZCKNA114 E INF 0810 QTASS DD027 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-YANAYEV + Z .YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADS OF STATENAND GOVERNMENT, UN =2. QOXI TASS 12, HE MEASURES THAT ARE BEING AD053 ARE TEMPORARY. THEY IN NO WAY MEAN RENUNCIATION OK THE COURSE TTW RDS PROFOUND REFTRMS IN ALL UPHERES OF LIFE OF THE STA AND SOCIETY. THESE ARE FORCED MEASURES, DICTATED BY THE VITAL NEED TO SAVE THE ECONOMY FROM RUIN AND THE COUNTRY FROM HUNGER, TO PREVENT THE ESCALUTION OF THE THREAT OF +A LARGE-SCALE CCVIL CONFLICT WITH UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PEOPLES OF THE USSR AND THE IENTIRE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. THE MOST IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS TO SECURE CONDITIONS AT WOULD GUARANTEE EACH CITIZEN PERSONAL SAFETY AND THE SAFEY OF HIS OR HER PROPERTY. IT IS ENVISAGED TO LIQUIDATE ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL, UNGOVERNABLE AND ESSENTIALLY CRIMINAL MILITARY FORMATIONS SPREADING MORAL AND PHYSICAL TERROR IN SEVERAL REGIONS OF THE USSR AND SERVING AS A CATALY+ST FOR DISINTEGRATION PROCESFES. THE ENTIRE RANGE OF MEASURES ADOPTED IS DIRECTED AT THE EARLIST STABILISATION OF THE SITUATION IN THE USS , THE NORMALISATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE, THE +IMPLEMENTATION OF NEVESSARY TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE CREATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE COUNTRY'S ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT. ANY OTHER WAY WOULD LEAD TO ENHANVED CONFRONTATION AND VIOLENCE, TO THE INNUMEGABLE SUFFERING OF OUR PEOPLES AND THE CREATION OF A DANGEGOUS FOCUS OF TENSION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF INTE NATION+AL SECURITY. THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEASURES IN NO MEAN FFECT INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS ASEUMED BY THE SOVIET UNION UNDER EXISTING TRATIS AND GREEMENTS. THE USSR IS PREPAREDNTO DEVELOP FURTHER ITS RELATIONS WITH ALL STATES ON THE BASIS OF UNIVERSALLY RECOGNISED PRINCIPLES ON GOOD-NEIGHBOURLINESS, EQUALITY, MUTUAL BENEFIT AND NON-INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF EAVH OTHE. WE ARE CONVINCD THAT OUR CURRENT DIFFICUPTIES ARE TRANSITORY IN CHARACTER AND THE OVIET UNION'S CONTRIBUT+ION TO PRESERVING PEACE AND CONSOLIDATINO INTERNATIONAL SECURITY WILL REMAIN SUBSTANTIAL. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE USSR HOPES THAT THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEAKURES WILL FIND PCOPE UNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF THE PEOPLES AND GOVERNMEOTS,AND THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISNNWON. GENNADY YANAYEV ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOPMZN ITEM ENDS MSK 14.18 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN VV ZCZCKNA115 E INF 1435 TASS AD073 E220 EM E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + Z .URGENT--ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =1. (SIX TAKES) 19/8 TASS 14 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS A THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS TO THE SOVIET PEOPLE HAS BEEN MADE PUBLCC HERE TODAY: I +COMPATRIOTS, CITIZENS OF THE SOVIET UN ON. WE ARE ADDRESUICG YOU IT THE GRAVE, CRITIVAL HOUR FOR THE DESTINIES OF MOTHERLAND AND OUR PEOPLES. A MORTAL DANGER HAS COME TO LOOM LARGE OV R OUR GREAT MOTHERLAND9 THE POLICY OF RDFORO+S, LAKNCHED AT MIKHAIL S. GORBACHEV'S INITIATIVE AND DESIGNED ASA MEANS TO ENSURE THE COUNTRY'S IDYKAMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE DEMOCRATISATION BF SOCIAL LIFE MAS ENTERED FOR SEVERAL REASONS A BLIND-ALLEY. LACK OF FAITH, APATHY AND DESPAIR HAVE REPLACED THE ORIGINAL ENTHUSIASM AND HOPES. AUTHORITIES AT ALL LEVELS HAV LOST THE POPULATION'S TRUST. POLITICKING HA REPLACED IN PUBLIC LIFE CONCERN FOR THE FATE OF MOTHERLAND AND THE CITIZEN. M TICIOUS OUTRAGE AGAINST ALL STATE INSTITUTES IS BEI+NG IMPOSEDM THE COUNTRX HAS IN FACT BECOME UNGOVERNABLE. HAVING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE GRANTED LIBERTIEE AND ENCROACHING UPON THE FIRSTSPROUTS OF DEMOCRACY, THERE HAVA EMERGED EXTREMIST F+ORCES THAT HAVE EMBARKED ON THE MOURSE TOWARDS LIQUIDATING THE SOVIET UNION, RUINING THE STATE AVD SEIZING POWER AT ANY COST. THE RESULTE OF THE NATIONW DE REFERENDUM ON MOTHERLAND'S UNITY HAVE BEEN TRAMPLED UPON. CYNICAL SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL XEELINGS ARE MERELY A SMOKESCREEN TO SATISFY AMBITIONS.+ NEITHER TODAY'SNMISFOQTUNES OF THEIR PEOPLES, NOR THEIR TOMORROW WORRY POLITICAL ADVENTURISTS. INCREATING AN ATMOSPHERE OF MORAL AND VOLITICAL TERROR AND SEEKING TONHIDE BEHIND THE SHIELD OF POPULAR TGUST, THEY XORGET THAT THEHRELATIONS THEY CONBEMN AND DISRUPT WERE ESTABLISHED ON THE BASIS OK FAR BROADER POPUL R SUPPORT WHICH, BESIDES, HAS PUSSED THE CENTURIES-LONG TEST OF HISTORY. TODAY, THOSE WHO ARE IN FACT WORKING TOWARDS THE OVERTHROW OX THE CONSTUTUTIONAL SYSTEM SHOULD BE BROUGHT T+O ACCOUNT BEFORE MOTHERS AND F THERS FOR THE DEATH OF THE HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS OF INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS. THE FATE OF MORE THAN HALF A MILLION REFUGEES IS ON THEIR CONSCIENCE. THEY ARE TO BL ME FOR THE LTSS OF TRANQUILITY AND THEN JOY OF LIVING OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF SOVIET PEOPLE WHO ONLY ZESTERDAY LIVED IN A UNITED FAMILYNBUT TODAY FOUND THEMSELVES LIVING AS OUTCASTS IN THEIR OWN HOME. PEOPLE SHOULD DECIDE WHAT SOCIAL SYSTEM SHOULD EXIST, BUT ATTEMPTS AHE BEING MADE TO DEPRIVE THEM OF THIS +RIGHT. MORE MSK 14.24 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN O ZCZCKNA116 E INF 1495 TASS DD823 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS ,)++ .URGENT--ADDRESS T SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =2. 19/8 TASS 14 INSTEAD OF SHOWING CONCERN FOR T E SECURITY AND WELL-BEING OF EVERY CITIZEN AND ALLPSOCIETY, PERSONS THAT HAVE COME TO POSITIONS OF POWER NOT INFREQUENTLY USE IT FOR INTERESTS APIENEO THE PEOPLE, AS A MEAN FOR UNSCRUPULOUS SELF-ASSERTION. TORRENTS OF WORDS AND PILES OF DECLARATIONS AND PROMISES ONLY UNDERLINE THE SCANTY ANB MEAGER NATURE OF THEIR PRACTICAL DEEDS. +THE INFLATVON OD AUTHORITY IS DESTHOYING OUR STATE AND SOCITY IN A MORE FRIGHTENING WAY THAN ANY OTHER. EVERY CITIZEN IS FEELING INCREASING UNCERTAINTY ABOUT TOMORROW AND DEEP CONCERN ABOKT THE FUURE OF HIS OR HER CHILDREN. THE POWER CRISIS HAS HAD CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY. THE CHAOTIC, SPONTANEOUF SLIDE TOWARDS A MARET PROVOVED AN EXPLOSION OF EGOISM -- REGIONAL, DEVARTMENTAL, GROUP AND PERSONAL. THE WAR OF LAWS AND ENCOURAGEMENT OF CENTRIFUGAL TENDENCIES SPELLED DESTRU+CTION OF THE INHEGRAL NATIONAL ECONOMIC MECHANISM THAT HAS BEEN SHAPING FOR DECADES. THE RESULT INCLUDES SHARP DROPS IN THE LIVING STANDARDS OF THE VAST MAJTRITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE, AND THE +BLOSSOMING OF PROFCTEERING AND THE SHADOW ECONOMYWM IT IS H GH TIMENPEOPLE WERE TOLD THE TRUTH: IF URGENT AND XECISIVE ME SURES ARE NOT ADOPTED TO STABILISE THE ECONOMY, HUNGER AND ANOTHER SPIRAL OF IMPOVERISHMENT ARE IMMINENT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, FROM WHICH IT IS JUST A STEPFROM MASS MANIFESTATIONS TF SION+TANEOUS DISCONTENT WITH DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES. ONLY IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE CAN BANK ONSOME AID FROM ABROAD. NO HAND-OUTS CAN SOLVE OUR PROBLEMS, OUR RESCUE S IN OUR OW HANDS. N T E TIME HAS COME TO MEASURE THE AUTHORITY OF EVERY PERSON AND ORGANISATION BXLTHEIR REAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. FOR LONG YEARS, WE HAVE HEARD NCANTATIONS FROM ALL SIDES ABOUO THENCOMMITMENT TO THE INTERESTS OFNAN INDIVIDUAL AND CONCERN FOR INDIVIDUALNRIGH+TS AND SOCIAL SECURITY. IN FACT, MAN HAS FOUND HIOSELF HUMILIATED AND DESPERATE, HIS REAL RIGHTSNAND VOSSIBILITIES INFRINGED UPON. N ALL DEMOCRATICNINSTIUTIONY CREATEF BY THE POPULAR WILL ARE LOSING WEIGHT AND EFFECTIVNESS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. THIS IS A RESILT OF PURPOSEFULNACTIONS BY THOSE WHO, GROSSLY VIOLATING THE FUNDAMENZAL LAW OF THE USSR, ARE EFFECTIVELY IN THE IRONASS OF STAGING AN ATICONSTITUTIONAL COUP AND STRIVING FOR UNBRIDLEB PERSONAL DICTATORIAL POWERS. PREFECTURES, MAYOR+ALTIES AND OTHER ILLEGA STRUCTURES ARE INCREASICGLY ELUCNWIW, DE FACTO, POPUPARLY-ELECTED GOVERNING COUNCILS. MORE + MSK 14.32 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN OO ZCZCKNA117 E IMF 0615 TASS EC814 E220 EN E220001 +3.34&3,:6-ADDRESS + Z .URGENT--ADDREFS TO SOMIET PEOPLE--FULL =3. 19/8 TASS 14 AN OFFENSIVE IS UNDER WAY ON THE RIGH OF WORKING PEOPLE. THE RIGHTS TO WORK, EDUCATION, HEALTH, HOUSING AND LEISURE ARE IN JEOPARDY. EVEN THE ELEMENTARY PERSONAL SECURITY OF PEOPLE IS INCREASINGLY UNDER THREAT. CRIME IS FAST ON THE INCREASE, GETTING ORGANISED AND POLITICISED. THE COUNTRY IS SINKING INTO THE QUAGMIRE OF VIOLENCE AND LAWLESSNESS. NEVER BEFOREI+IN NATIONAL HISTORY HAS THE PROPAGANDA OF SX AND VIOLENCE ASSUMED SUCHNA SCALE, THREUTENIG THE HEALTH AND LIMES OF XUTURE GENERATIONS. MYTLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING MEASURES AGAINST THE OCTOPUS OF CRCME AND GLARING IMMORALITY. I THA INCREASING DESTABILISATION OF HE POLITICAL AND ECONOVUC SITUATION INEHE SOVIET UNION IS UNDERCUTTING OUR POSITIONS IN 5#3 WORLD9 REVANC IST NOTES ARE TO BE HEARD IN SOME PLACES AND DEMANDS AHE BEING MADE FOR A REVIEW OF OUR BTRDERS. VOICES CAN EVEN BE HEARD SPEA+KING OF DISMEMBER NG THE SOVIAT UNION AND OF THE POSSIBQLITY OF ESTABLISHIV INTERNATIONAL GUARDIANSHIP OVER INDIVIDUAL FACILITIES AND REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. SUCH IS THE BITTER REALITY. W+HEREAS ONLY YESTERDAY A SOVIET PERSON FINDING HIMSELF AOROAD FELT HIMSELF A WORTHY CITIZEN OF AN INFLUENTIAL ANHJIQNAQNGLSTATE, NOI HE IS OFTENHU SECOND-RATENF FOREIGNER, THE UTTITUDE TO WHOM IS MARKED BY EITHER CONTEMPT OR SYMPATHY. THE PRIDE AND HONOUR OF SOVIET PEOPLE MUST BE RESTORED IN FULL. MORE+ MSK 14.36 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA118 E INF 0718 TASS CD040 E220 EN E220001 +EVERGENCY-ADDRESS + Z .URGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVCET PEOPLE--FULL =4. 19/8 TASS 14 THE STATE COVMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR IS FULLY AWARE OF THE DEPTH OF THE CRISIS THAT HAU AFFLICTED THE COUNTRY, IT TAKES UPON ITSELF THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FATE OF THE COUNTRY AND IS FULLY DETERMINED TO TAKE MOST SERIOUS MEASURES TO TAKE THE STATE AND SOCIETY OUT OF THE CRISIS AS SOON AS VOSSIBLE. WE PROMISE TO HOLD A NATIONWIDE DISCUS+SION OF THE DRAFT NEW UNION TREATY. EACH INDIVIDUAL WILL HAVE THE RIGHT AND OPVORTUNITY TO THINK OVER THIS M JOR ACT AND DEFINE HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD IT, BECAUSE THE FATE OF UMEROUS P OPLES OF OUR GREAT MOTHERLAND WILL DEPEND ON WHAT THE SOVIET UNION WCLL BE TIKE. WE INTEND TO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER STRAIGHT AWAY, END BLOODSHED, DECLARE A WAR WITHOUT MERCY TO THE CRIMINAL WORLD, ERADICATE SHAMEFUL PHENOMENA DISCREDITING OUR SOCIETY AND DEGRADING SOVIET CITIZENS. WE SHALL CLEAN THE STREETS OF OUR +CITIES FROM CRIMINAL ELEMENTS AND PUT AN END TO ARBITRARINESS OF THE SQUANDERERS OF THE NATIONAL WEALTH. WE FAVOUR GENUINE DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES, A CONSISTENT REFORM POLICY LEADING TO THE RE+NEWAL OF OUR MOTHERLAND, ITS CONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROSPERITY WHICH WILL ENABLE IT TO TAKE A WORTHYNLACE IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY OFNNATIONS. THE COUNTRY'S DEVELOPMENT MUST NOT BE BUILT UPON THE DECLINING STANDARDS OF LIVING OF THE PEOPLE. A CONSISTENT RISE IN THE LIVING STANDARDS OF ALL CITIZENS WILL BECOME +THE NORM IN A HEALTHY SOCIETY. WITHOUT REDUCING CARE FOR STRENGTHENING AND PROTECTING THE INTERESTS OF THE WIDEST LAYERS OF THE PTPULATION, THOSE WHO ARE THE HARDEST HIT BY INFLATION, PROLUCTION DISORGAN SATION, CORRUPTION AND CRIME. DEVELOPING THE MAY-TIER CHARACTER OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, WE HALL SUPPORT PRIVATE EMOERPRISE, GRANTING IT NECESSARY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION AND SERVICES. MORE MSK 14.42 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA119 E INF 0705 TASS AVKOXO E220 EN E220001 ZEMERGENCY-ADDRESS + Z .URGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =5. 19/8 TASS 14 OUR PRIME CONCERN IS THE SOLUTION OF THE FOOD AND HMUSING PROBLEMS. ALL AVAILABLE FOCCESWILL BE MOBIGIZED TO MEET THESE, THE MOST ESSEMTIAL NEADS OF T3 PEOPLE. WE ARE CALLING UPON WORKERS, PEASANTS, WORKING INTELLILENTSIA, ALL SOVIET PEOPLE TO RESTORE, WITHIN THE BRIEFEST PERIOD OF TIME, LABOUR ISCIPLINE AND OGDER, RAISE THE LEVEL OF PRODUCTION IN ORDER +TO RESOLUTELY MARCH AHEAD. OUR LIFE AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, TFATEOF THE MOTHERLAND DEPEND ON THIS. WE ARE A PEACE-LOVING COUNTRY AND SHALL UNDEVIATINGLY HONOUR ALL OURHCOMMITMENTSWE HAVE NO CLAIMS TO MAKE AGAINST ANYBODY. WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ALL. BUT WE FIRMLY DECLARE THAT NO ONE WILL BE EVER ALLOWED TO ENCROACH UPON OUR SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITHWM ALL ATTEMPOYN TO TALK THE LANGUAGE OF DIKTAT TO OUR COUNTRY, NO MAT+TER WHERE THEY MAY COME FROM, WILL BE RESOLUTELY SUPPRESSED. OUR MULTINATIONAL PEOPLE HAS VUVED FORNCENTURIES PROUD OF THEIR MOTHERLAND, WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ASHAMED OF OUR PATRIOTIC FAOBINGS +AND WE HOLD IT NATURAL AND RIGHTFUL TO RAISE THE PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT POWER IN THIS SPIT. TO REMAIN INACTIVE AT THIS HOUR OF CRISIS FOR THE FATE OF THE MOTHERLAND MEANS TO TAKE UPMN ONESELF THE HEAVY ESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TRAGIC, TRULY UNPREDICTABLE VONSEQUENCES. EAC+H INDIVIDUAL WHO HOLDS OUR MOTHERLAND DEAR, WHO WANTS TO LIVE AND WORK IN PEACE AND CONFIDENCE, WHO DOES NOT ACQUIESCE TO THE CONTIMUAHION MK THE BLOODY INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS, WHO SEES HIS MOTHERLAND INDEPENDENT AND PROSPERING IN THE FUTURE MUST MAKE THE ONLY RIGHT CHOICE. WE CALL ON ALL TRUE PATRIOTS, PEOPLA OF GOOD WILL TO PUT AN END TO THE PRESEN TIME OF UNCERTAINTY. MORE MSK 14.47 QOAPIAQOOQ QVMV ZCZCKNA120 E INF PQUE TASS CD038 E--0 EN E220001 +EMARGANCY-ADDRESS + Z NP .URGENT -- ADDRESUMTO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =6. 19/8 TASS 14 WE CALL ON ALL CITIZENS OF THE SOVIET UNION TO GROW AWARE OF THEIR DUTY BEFORE THE COUNTRY AND VOPDER ALL POSFIBLE ASSISTANCE TO HSTATENOMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR AND EFFORTS TO PULL THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE CRISIS. CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALSIFROM SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS, WORK COLLECTIVES AND INDIVIDUALS WILL BE APPRECIATED AS THE S+HOW OF THEI PATRIOTICIKEADINESS TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE RESTORATION OF THE CENTURY-OLD FRIEMJSHIP IN THE SINGLE FAMILY OF FRATERNAL PEOPLES AND THE REVIVALOF THE MOTHERPAXF. THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENVY IN THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZ ITEM ENDS MSK 14.50 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN V ZCZCKNA121 E INF 0211 TASS AD357 E220 EN E220001 +UNION-YANAYEV + Z .VICE-PRESIDENT YANAYEV TAKES OVER AS ACTING PRESIDENT. PQOXI ASS 25 GZ IIIOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - IN A DECREE MADE PUBLIC IN THE SOVIET UION TODAY, VICE-PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEV JNCOUNCED THAT MIKHAIL GORBACHEV IS UNABLE TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES AS TIONAL PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH REASONS. ON THE STRENGTH OF ARTICLE 127, CLAUSE 7, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION, YANAYEV, TRN ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF SOVIETNPRESIDENT FROM AUGUST 19, QOOQM + THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP TODAY RELEASED A STATEMENT ANNOUNCING THE DECISIVN TO IMPOS A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME PARTS OF THE USSR FOT A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS, IN EFFECT FROM 4:00 AM MOKCOW ORTIME, AUGUST 19, QOOQN VAND :)-48,& THAT THE CONSTITUTION AN 72' OK THE USSR TAKE UNCONDITIONAL PRECEDENCE THROUGHOUT SOVIET TERRITOVY. TO GOVERNTHE COUNTRY AND EXERCISE WITEFFICIENCY STATE OF EMERGENCY REGULATNONS, A DECISION HAS BEEN ADOPTED TO SET UP A STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN TH+E USSR. THE SOVIET LEABARSHIP'S UTATEMENT INDICATS THAO DACISIONS BR THE NOMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMECGENCY ARE MANDATORY FOR ALL BODIES OF AUTHORITY ANF GOVERNMENT, ODGICIALS AND CITIZ+ENS THROUGMOUT SOVIET TERRITORY. THE STATEMENTPHAS BEEN SIGNED BY YANAYEV, SOVIET PRIM MIMISTER VALENTIN PAVLOV AND FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE DEFENCE COUNCIL OLEG BAKLANOV. IN A STATEMENT CIRCULATED THIS MORNING, ANATOLY LUKYANOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET, CRITICISED THE PUBLISHED TEXT +OF THE UNION TREATY. LUKYANOV OBSERVED THAT THE SUPREME SOVIO'=' REMJKKSABOUT THE EXPEDIENCY OK ENVISAGING IN THE DRAFT UNION TREATY THE EXISTENCE OF A SINGLE ECONOO HZRIQNJPKJLI S NGLE BANKING SYSTEM AND THE PRESERVATION OF UNION PROPERTY, DEMAND FOR THE FIXATIOM OF INDENEMJENT TAX DEDUCTIONS INTO THE UNION BUDGET AND SEVERAL OTHER PROVISIONS WERE NOT ULY REDLECTENN THE YT. ALL THESE PROBLEMS, LUKYANOV STATED, DEMAND ADDITIONAL DISCUSSIONS AT T E USSR UUPREME SOVIET AND THEN, PROXUBLY, ZAT THE COGRESS OF PEOPLEPSS DEPUTIES. YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVRNMENT ND THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL WAS MADE PUBLIC IN MOSCOW TODAY. NYANAYEV EMPHASISEDNZHAT THETEM THFLYFLOVERGENCY MASURES IN NO A Y AFFECT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS ASSUMED BY THE SOVIETQ UNION U DERIEXISTING TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS. THE USSR IS PREPACED TT DEVELOP ITS EATIONS WITH ALL STATES ON THE -'8' OF UNIVERSALLY RECOGNISED PRINCIPLES OF GOOD- NEIGHBOURLINESS, EQUALIOY OUTUAL BENEFIT AND+ NON-INTERF RENCE IN ONE ANOTHER'S AFFAIRS. YANAYEV EXPRESSED COFIDENCE THAT THE CURRENT DIFFICULTIES ARE ORANSITORY IN CHARACTER AND THENSOVIOO UVI+ON'S CONTRIBUTION TO PRESERVING PEACE AND CONSOLIDATING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY CIICBH REMAIN SUBSTANTIAL. N OHE FOVIET LEADERSHIP HOPES, THE ADDRESS SAYS, VTHAT THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEASUREE WILL FIND PROPER UNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS AND THE UNITED MATIONS ORGUNISATION. V THE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN T+HE USSR, IN AN APPEAL TO THE SOVIET PEOPLEW DECLARED THAT IT ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FATE OF MTTHERLAND WND IS FULLY RSOLVED TO UNDERTAKE MOST SERIOQS MEASURES TO LEAD THE STATE AMD SOCIETY OUT OF CCIBRPKL +WE ADVOCATE TRULY DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND CONSISTENT REFORM POLIMIES HELPING UPDAOE OUR MOTRLAND AND ACMIEVE ITS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROSHERIY, WHICH WILL ENABLE IT TO TAVE A WORTHY PLACE IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONS,+ THE COMMITTEE!S ADDRESS SAID. +W ARE A PEACE-L+OVING NATION AND WILL UNFAILINGLY HONOUR ALL USSUMED COMM TMENTS,+ THE COMMITTEE STRESSED. +ANYMATTEMPTS AT TALKING TO OUR COUNORV IN THE LANGUAGEVOF DICTATES, NO MATTER BY WHOMN WILL BE DECISIVELQ CUT SHORT,+ IT ADDED. ITEM ES MSK 15.80 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA122 E INF 0516 TASS CC981 E999 EN E999001 +SOVIET-PRESS-REVIEW + Z .SOVIET COMMKNIST PARVY PRAVDA REVIW =,., (FVUR TAKES) 19/8 TA S 32 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY DAILYN PRAVDA OM MONDAY PUBLISHES THE ARTICLE +KUZBASS'S POTENTIAL: HOW TO USE IT EFFECTIVELY?+, WHICH IS DEVOTED TO THE CRISIS SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMY. Z IICXOLREGION WILL NEED OVER 150 BILLION ROUBLES TO RESTORE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL ORDER INNTHE REGION, INCLUDING ITS KEY INDUSTRIE - COALAMINING+, METALLURGY, CHEMISTRY AND MACHINE- BUILDING. THE NEWSPAPER SAYS THE CRISIS CAN BE RESOLVED IF THE REGION'S COAL MINOBLGAINNYEAL INDEPENDENCE AND CARRY OUT STRUCTURAL REFORMS TO EXPAND THEIR SPECIALISATION. THE REGION NEEDS A CLOSED TECHNOLOGICAL CYCLE OR IT MAY REMAIN A RAW MATERIAL APPENDAGE TO THE COUNTRY,+ THE ARTICLE SAYS9 PRAVDA CORRESPONEENT K. KSYONOV REPOS FROM KHASNODAR ABOUT THE DROP IN GRAIN PHODCTION IN KUBAN, SOUTHERN RUSSIA. THIS YEAR, THE REGION HARVESTED 1.5 MILLION T+ONES LESS GRAIN THAN IN 1990, MAINLY DUE TO INEFFICIENT TECHNIQUES TO PROTECT PLANTS FROM PESS AND DISEASES, THE ARTICLE SAYS. MORE + MSK 15.04 QOAPI QOOQ NNNN X +:+:(,-128 E INF 0564 TASS BDLQYU E999 EN E999001 +PRESS-REVIEW + Z .'9=835 COMMUNIST PARTY DAILY PRAV-,43=832 =2. 19/8 TASS 32 INNTHE ARTICLE +PARTY AND POWER+, VYACHESLAV KHALIPOV, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OF THE MAGAZINE +SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES+, COMMENTS ON BLUEPRINTS OF THE SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY PROGRAMME. ON THE EVE OFTHE SIGINGOF A UNION TREATY. THE NEWSAPER CARRIES THE ARTICLE +KAZAKHSTAN-RUSSIA: DIALXGUENIN ALMA-ATA+, TELLING ABOUT THE RESULTS OF TALKS BETWEEN RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BOR+IS LTSIN AND HIS KAEAKH COUNTERPART NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV. PRAVDA PUBLISHES MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S GREETINGS TO AN INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON ENERGY, ECOLOGY AND ECONOMY AND HIS CONGRATULATIONS TO PRESIDENT NAJIBULLAH OF AFGHANISTUN ON AFGHANISTAN'S INDEPENDENCE DAY. IT ALSO CARRIES REPORTS ABOUT CPSU CENTRAL COMMITTEE ALEMAOER DZASTCYOVWRS VISIT TO DONBASSTO ATTEND DISCUSSIONS OF A DRAFT PARTY PROGRAMME. THE NEWSPAPER OFNERS METERI LS ABOUT A SESSION OF THE SOVIET CABINET OF MINISTERS LAST S+ATURDAY TO DISCUSS A UNION TREATY. THE GOVERNMENT AGREED THAT ITS FIGNINGNWILL BE OF PARAMOUNT IMPORTANCE FOR REABILISING THE DIFFICULT POLITICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY AND FORMING +A RENOVATED FEDERATION OF SOVEREIGN REPUBLICS. L MORE MSK 15.08 QOAPIAQOOQ MNNNV ZCZCKNA133 E INF 0213 TASS CD251 E999 EN E999001 +PRESS- EMIEW + Z .SOVIET COMMUNIST PARTY DAILY PRAVDA REVIEW =3. 19/8 TASS 32 THE NEWSPAPER REPORTS GEORGIAN PRIME MINISTER T. SIGUA'S RESIGNATION OVER THE WEEKEND ANLZWEORGIAN PRESIDENT'S DECREE RELIEVING NM OF HIS DUTIES. THE RESIGNATION WAS PROMPTED BY THE SIGUA GOVERNMENT'S INABILITY TO STOP THE SEVERE ECONOMIC CRISIS IN THE REPUBLIC AND THE DROP IN LIVING STANDARDS.,- PR VDA CARRIES A REPORT BY THE SOVIET DEFENCE MINY QNFDGRESS CENTRE+ DENYING A STATEMENT, ISSUED BY THE JAPANESE FOREIGN MINISTRY, ON THE VIOLATION OF THE JAPANESE AIR SPACE BY SOVIET MILITARY UIRCRAXO. CP +THE FLIGHT WAS PERFORMED AT A DISTANCE OF 26=)8:OOERF FROM THE SHORE LINE OF THE JAPANESE ISLAND REBUN-JIMA (NEAR NORTHERN HOKKAIDO), THAT IS 3.8 KILOMETERF FROM THE TERRITORIAL WATERS,+ THE REPORT SAYS. THE NEWSPAPER ALSO OFFERS THE CONTENTS OF A RECENTLY V UBLISHED IZVESTIA TSK KPSS MAGAZINE. MORE MSK 15.11 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA134 E INF 0213 TASS CD222 E220 EN E2200=1 +USSR-WESTERN-SAHARA + Z .# OVIET SPOKESMAN ON SITUATION IN WESTERN SAHARA. 19/8 TASS 41 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS -- RECENT COMPLICATIONS OF THE SITUATION AROUND THE U.N.-CONTROLLED REFERENDUM ON THE SELF- DETERMINAT ON OF THE WEIVKNSAHARAN PEOPLE ARE CAUSING GROWING CONCERN, - SOVIT FOREIGNNMINISTRY SPOKESMAN TOLD TASS. AS IS KNOWN, THE SOVIET UNION NOT ONLY WELCOMD THE UNITED NATIONS EFFORTS TO UNBLOCK THE WEST-SAHARAN ISSUE BY PEACEFUL POLITI+CAL MEANS, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE INTERESTS OF ALL CONCERNED AND INTERESTED PARTIES, BUT EXPRES ED READINESS TO TAKE PART IN THE PRACTICAL HOLDING OF THE REFERENDUM. ATTACHING GREAT IMPORTANNE TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE U.N.- ENDORSED PLAN FOR A PEACE SETTLEMENT IN WESTERN SAHARA, WE REITERATE OUR FIRM SUPPORT FOH THEHEFFORTS MADE BY THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL TO PREPARE AND HOLD A REFERENDUM IN WESTERN SAHARA AS AGREED EARLIER. ITEM ENDS MSK 15.14 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA142 E INF 0697 TASS AD812 E030 EN E0300019 +ECONOMY-POACHERS + Z .SOUTH KOREAN FISHING SHIP DET INED BY SOVIET BORDER GUARDS. PQOXI TASS 39 VLADIVOSTOK 19 TASS -- BY TASS CORRESPONDENT LEONID VINOGRADOV: THE SOUTH KOREAN FISHING SHIP HOE SAN WAS DETAINED BY THE SOVIET COAST GUARD SHIP MENZHINSKY FOR ILLEGAL FISHING FOHZRPQIPFBL IN THE SOVIET ECONOMIC ZONAM N THE SOVIET SHIP COMMANDER, VIKTOR GONTAREV, TOLD TASSNTHAT KOREAN CAPTAIN KIM MIANG HVA'S VERSION THAT THE SHIP'S ENGINE BROKE DOWN AND +DVCFTED INTOTHE SOVIET ECONOMIC ZONE DID NOT XHOLD WATER. ON AUGUST 17, WITH NO WIND AND CONSEQUENTLY NO DRIFTING TO SPEAK OF, THE KOREAN SHIP WAS DETECTED AT LEAST 12 KILOMETERS INTO THE SOVIET ECONOMIC ZONE. AS SOON AS THE POACHERS SIGHTED THE SOVIET COAST GUARD SHIP, THEY TRIED TO GET AWAY, MANOEUVERING AT FULL SPEED FOR 30 MINUTES. THE KOREAN CAPTAI PAID NO ATTENTION WHATSOEVER TO SIGNALS FROM THE SOVIET SHIP, GIVEN IN FULL ACCORD WITH THE INTERNATIONAL RULES FOR DETAINING TRANSG+RESSING VESSELS. ONLY AFTER AN INSPECTION SPEEDBOAT WAS LOWERED FROM MENZHINSKY WAS THE POACHING SHIP BLOCKED FROM TWOSIDES AND BROUGH TO A STTH.8THE SOVIET INSPECTORS FOUND A TRAWLER AND +THREE TONNES OF FRESH SQUID ON THE SHIP'S DECK, WITH ANOTHER TEN TONNES IN THE SHIP'S HOLD. FACED WITH INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE, KIM MIANG HVA ADMITTED IN A STATEMENT THAT HIS SHIP HAD BEEN DETAINED IN THE SOVIET ECONOMIC TNE WHILE ILLEGALLY FISHING FOR SQUID. HE SIGNED THE STATEMENT AND APPLIED THE SHI+P'S SEAL TTTHE CHART TRACING THE MANOEUVERS, PURSUIT AND DETENTION OF HIS SHIP BY THE SOVIET COAST GUARD SHIP. AT PRESENT THE KOREAN SHIP IS IN NAKHODKA HARBOUR IN THE SOUTH OF THE SOVIET FAR EAST, GUARDED BY MENZHINSKY. SOVIET COMPETENT BODIES ARE CONDUCTING AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE FACTS OF ILLEGAL FISHING. ITEM ENDS MSK 15.19 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA143 E INF 0621 TASS AD800 E999 EN E999001 +PRESS-REVIEW + Z 9:35=835 COMMUNIST PARTY DAILY PRAVDA REVIEW =4. 19/8 TASS 32 THE ARTICLE +HOSTAGES ARE ALIVE. BUT THERE IS NO PEACE.+ IS DEVOTED TO NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN MAJOR GENERAL V. STARIKOV, REPRESENTING THE SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTRY TROOPS, AND ARMENIAN GUERRILLAS. THE NEWS IPER SAYS THATNTWO ROUNDS OF TALKS WERE FRUITLESS IN FINDING A COMPROMISE TO RELEASLTHE SOVIET SOLDIERS CAPTURED BY ARMENIAN MILITANTS LAST WEEK. THE LATTER REITERATE+D THEIR DEMAND FOR A TRANSFER OF SIX ARMENIANS FROM AN AZERBAIJANI PRISON TO ANY OTHER IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION AND A FREE TRIAL. IN THE RUBRIC +PAGES OF HISTORY+, PRAVDA PUBLISHES THE ARTICLE +LENIN AND HOOVER+ ABOUTPAN AGREEMENT ON HUMANITARIAN AID TO SOVIET RUSSIA FROM THE AMERICAN RELIEF ADMINISTRATION IN 1921- 1922. DOCTOR OF SCIENCES YURI BOROZDINCOMMENTS ON THE NEED FOR DETERMINED MOVES TO A MARKET ECONOMY IN THE COUNTRY. HE BELIEVES THESE MOVES ARE IEVITABLE, BUT TO SPEED THE PRO+CESS THE COUNTRY SHOULD +STOP A MONEY-PRINTING MACHINE+ AND SHARPLY REDUCE BUDGET EXPENDIURES. PRAVDA OFFERS THE LAST PART OF VLADIMIR KARPOV'S STORY +SECRET REPRISAL AGAINST MARSHAL ZHUKOV+ ABOUT H+IS REMOVAL FROM THE POST OF THE SOVIET DEFENCE MINISTER. THE NEWSPAPER ALSO DEVOTES SOME OF ITS MATERIALS TO THE SITUATION IN THE KOREAN PENINFLA AND IN YUGOSLAVIA, THE EXPERIENCE OF PRIVATISATION IN CZECHOSLOVAKIA, ANBPAN INTERVIEW WITH ISRAELI TRANSPORT MINISTER MOSHE KATZAV. ITEM ENDS MSK 15.23 QOAPIAUOOQ NNCN ZCZCKNA144 E INF 0105 TASS CD437 E999 EN E999001 +GORBACHEV-YAMAYEV + Z .URGENT--DECREE BY SOVIET VICE-PRESIDENT--FULL. 19/8 TASS 11 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - IN CONNECTION WITH THE INABILITY FOR HEALTHNREASONS BY MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES AS USSR PRESIDENT, I HAVE ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF USSR PRESIDENT FROM AUGUST 19, QOOQ ON THE BASIS OF ARTICLE 127 KUL OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION. GENNADY I. YANAYEV VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZMZ ITEM ENDS MSK 15.24 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA145 E INF 0160 TASS BD483 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RANAYEV + Z =YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADS OGZJICNMOLAND GOVERNMENT, UN =1. (TWO TAKES) 19/8 TASS 12 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - FOLLOWING IS THE FULL TEXT OF VICE-PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT AND THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: +AT THE INSTRUCTION OF THA SOVIET LEADERSHIP I THEREBY NOTIFY ZHAT A STATE OF EMERGENCY IS INTRODUCED IN INDIVIDUAL LOCALITIES OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIA+LIST REPUBLICS FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS FROM AUGUST 19, QOOQ IN KEEPING WITH THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR. ALL POWER IN THE COUNTRY IS TRANSFERRED FOR THIS PERIOD TO THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR. MORE MSK 15.27 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZVMA146 E NF 0810 TASS DD594 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-YANAYEV + Z .YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT, UN =2. 19/8 TASS 12 THE MEASURES THAT ARE BEING ADOPTED ARE TEMPORARY. THEY IN NO WAY MEAN RENUNCIATION OF THE COURSE TOWARDS PROFOUND REFORMS IN ALL SPHERES OF LIFE OF THE STATE AND SOCIETY. THESE ARE FORCED MEASURES, DICTATED BY THE VITAL NEED TO SAVE THENECONOMY FROM RUIN AND THE COUNTRY FROM HUNGER, TO PREVENT THE ESCALATIOM OF THE THREAT OF +A LARGE-SCALE CIVIL CONFLICT WITH UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES FOR THE PEOPLES OF THE USSR AND THE ENTIRE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY. THE MOST IMPORTANT OBJECTIVE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS TO SECURE CONDITIONS THAT WOULD GUARANTEE EACH CITIZEN PERSONAL SAFETY AND THE SAFETY OF HIS OR HER PROPERTY. IT IS ENVISAGED TO LIQUIDATE ANTI-CONSTITUTIONAL, UNGOVERNABLE AND EE NTIALLY FIMINAL MILITARY FORMATIONS SPREADING MORAP AL PHYSICAL TERROR IN SEVERAL REGIONS OF THE USSR AND SERVING AS A CATALY+ST FOR DISINTEGRATION PROCESSES. THE ENTIRE RANGE OF MEASURES ADOPTED IS DIRECTED AT THE EARLIEST STABILISATION OF THE SITUATION IN THE USSR, THE NORMALISATION OF SOCIO-ECONOMIC LIFE, THE +IMPLEMENTATION OF NECESSARY TRANSFORMATIONS AND THE CREATION OF CONDITIONS FOR THE COUNTRY'S ALL-ROUND DEVELOPMENT. ANY OTHER WAY WOULD LEAD TO ENHANCED CONFRONTATION AND VIOLENCE, TO THE INNUMERABLE SUFFERING OF OUR PEOPLES AND THE CREATION OF A DANGEROUS FOCUS OF TENSION FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF INTERNATION+AL SECURITY. THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEASURES IN NO MEAN AFFECT INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS ASSUMED BY THE SOVIET UNION UNDER EXISTING TREATIES AND AGREEMENTS. TTZGPPIFBWS PREPARED TO DEVELOP FURTHER ITS RELATIONS WUTH ALL STATES ON THE BASIS OF UNIVERSALLY RECOGNISED PRINCIPLES OF GOOD-NEIGHBOURLINESS, EQUALITY, MUTUAL BENEFIT AND NON-INTERFERENCE IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS OF EACH OTHER. WE ARE CONVPCVED THAT OUR CURRENT DIFFICULTIES ARE TRANSITORY IN CHARACTER AND THE SOVIET UNION'S CONTRIBUT+ION TO PRESERVING PEACE AND CONSOLIDATING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY WILL REMAIN SUBSTANTIAL. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE USSR HOPES THAT THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEASURES WILL FIND PROPER UNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF THE PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS, AND THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION. GENNADY YANAYEV ACTING PRESIDENTOD THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQMZ ITUM ENDS MSK 15.34 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA147 E INF 0605 TASS BD618 E999 EN E599001 +SOCIETY-USSR + Z .URGENT -- STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET. (THREE TAKES) 19/8 TAUF 6 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - FOLLOWS THE FU TEXT OF THE STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET: +IN CONNECTION WITH NUMEROUS LETTERS FROM WORKERS REQUESTUNG ME TOOPRESS MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DRAFT TREATY OF UNION OF SOVEREIGN STATES PUBLISHED THREE DAYS AGO, I CONSIDER IT VNECESSARY TO DECLA+RE THE FOLLOWING: THE DRAFT TREATY WAS SUPPORTED ON THE WHOLE BY THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET ON JULY 12, QOOQM THE SUPREME SOVIET HAS FORMED A PLENIPOTENTIARY UNION DELEGATION AND ASSIGNED IT TO PROCEED, IN ADDING FINAL TOUCHES TO AND COORDINATING THE DRAFT TREATY, FROM A NUMBER OF PROVISIONS FORMULATED BY THE SUPREME BODY OF AUTHORITY IN THE COUNTRY. FIRSTOF ALL, THE NEED WAS STRESSED TO REFLECT IN THE TITLE AND BASIC PRINCIPLES OF THE TREATY THE RESULTS OF THE ALL-UNION REFERENDUM IN THE COU+RSE OF WHICH THE ABSOLUTE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY'S CITIZENS SUPPO TED THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS AS A RENOVATED FEDERATION OGZRPQPNCBH SOVEREIGN REPUBLICS. A SIMI+LAR APPROACH TO THE TITLE AND CHARACTER OKKTHE UNION STATE WAS FORMULATED BY THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR. DETAILED ARGUMENTATION OF THIS POSITION OF THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET WAS MADE AT A MEETING OF THE HEADS OF PLENIPOTENTIARY DELEGATIONS IN NOVO-OGAREVO,+ THE STATEMENT READS. M+ORE MSK 15.38 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA148 E INF 0535 TASS AD774 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + Z .URGENT -- STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET =2. 19/8 TASS 6 +NONETHELESS, IT WAS NOT REFLECTED IN THE FINAL TEXT OF THE TREATY. NATURALLX, THIS IS UE WILL UNDOUBTEDLY DEMAND EXTRA DISCUSSION BY THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR AND, PROBABLY, AN ALL-UNION CEFRENDUM CONNECTED WITH THE ADOPTION OF A NEW CONSTITUTION. THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET FOUND IT EXPEDIENT TO ENVISAG+E IN THE DRAFT UNION TREATY THE PRESENCE IN TME USSR OF A SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE, A SINGLE BANKING SYSTEM AND THE PRESERVATION AS PROPERTY OF THE UNION THE PROPERTY THAT IS REQUIRED FOR ITS NORMAL FUNCTIONING AS A FEDERAL STATE. THE DEMAND FOR THE INTRODUCTION OF INDEPENDENT TAX DEDUCTIONS INTO THE UNION BUDGET WAS STIPULATED SPECIALLY. REGRETTABLY, THESE MAJOR PROVISIONS WERE NOT SUFFICIENTLY CLEAR REFLECTED IN THE PUBLISHED TEXT OF THE T EATY. THIS IS ALSO EVIDENCED FROM RECENT STATEMENTS +BY THE USSR CAOINET OF MINISTERS, THE BOARD OF THE USSR STATE BANK AND SEVERAL OTHER UNION BODIES. THIS WILL PROBABLY DEMAND CONSIDERABLE AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT OF THE TREATY,+ THE BGNMOVENT SAYS. Z MORE MSK 15.41 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKN TPRO E INF 0705 TASS CD420 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + Z .URGENTM-- STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET =9 19/8 TASS 6 +THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET PAID EXCLUSIVELY SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THE TERMINATION OF THE SO-CALLED +WAR OF LAWS+, IN FACT GLARING LAWLESSNESS.IN THIS CONNECTION, A NORM WAS PROPOSED FOR INCLUSION INTO THE TREATY TO PREVENT THE SUSPENSION BY THE USSR OF REPUBLICAN LAWS AND BY+ THE REPUBLICS OF UNION LAWS, AND THE RESOLUTION OF POSSIBLE DISPUTES THROUGH CONCILIATORY PROCEDURES OR RULINGS BY THE USSR CONSTITUTIONAL COURT. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THIS PROPOSAL WAS BACKED BY LEADING SOVIET LAWYERS, IT FAILED TO FIND PROPER REFLECTION IN THE TEXT OF THE TREATY PREPARED IN NOVO-OGAREVO. THERE IS NO NEED TO PROVE HOW DANGEROUS THIS IS FOR THE FORMATION OF A STABLE LEGAL SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRY. THE ORDER OF IMPLEMENTING THE TREATY DURING THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD TO SECURE C+ONTINUITY IN THE OPERATION OF BODIES OF STATE AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT DEMANDS A CONSIDERABLY CLEARER DEFINITION IN THE TREATY. WITHOUT THIS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN, AT LEAST TO THE MINIM+UM EXENT, THE FUNCTIONING OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY IN THE EXTREMELY GRAVE CRISIS SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY. ALL THESE PROBLEMS DEMAND, IN MY OPINION, EXTRA DISCUSSION AT A SESSION OF THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET AND THEN, PROBABLY, AT THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR. WITHOUT THIS, SUCH A DO+CUMENT OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO THE DESTINIES OF OUR STATE AS THE UNION TREATY CANNOT FULLY REFLECT THE SOVIET PEOPLE'S WILL TO PRESERVE THE USSR, A GREAT POWER CALLED UPON TO SERVE THE INTERESTS OF CITIZENS OF ALL NATIONALITIES AND EBERTING MOST SERIOUS INFLUENCE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. A. LUKYANOV CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME SOV ET OF THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZ ITEM ENDS MSK 15.47 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA150 E INF 1435 TASS DD586 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADLRESS + Z .URGENT--ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =:. (SIX TAKES) 19/8 TASS 14 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS TO THE SOVIET PEOPLE HAS BEEN MADE PUBLIC HERE TODAY: +COMPATRIOTS, CITIZENS OF THE SOVIET UNION, WE ARE ADDRESSING YOU AT THE GRAVE, CRITICAL HOUR FOR THE DESTINIES OF MOTHERLAND AND OUR PEOPLES. A MORTAL DANGER HAS COME TO LOOM LARGE OVER OUR GREAT MOTHERLAND. THE POLICY OF REFORMS+, LAUNCHED AT MIKHAIL S. GORBACHEV'S INITIATIVE UND DESIGNED AS A MEANS TO ENSURE THE COUNTRY'S DYNAMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THE DEMOCRATISATION OF SOCIAL LIFE HAS ENTERED FOR SEVERAL REASONS A BLIND-ALLEY. LACK OF FAITH, APATHY AND DESPAIR HAVE REPLACED THE ORIGIN L ENTHUSIASM AND HOPES. AUTHORITIES AT ALL LEVELS HAVE LOST THE POPULATION'S TRUST. POLITICKING HAS REPLACED IN PUBLIC LIFE CONCERN FOR THE FATE OF MOTHERLAND AND THE CITIZEN. MALICIOUS OUTRAGE AGAINST ALL STATE INSTITUTES IS BEIN+G IMPOSED. TME COUNTRY HAS IN FACT BECOME UNGOVERNABLEWO HAVING TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THE GRANTED LIBERTIES AND ENCROACHING UPON THE FIRST SPROUTS OF DEMOCRACY, THERE HAVE EMERGED EXTREMIST F+ORCES THAT HAVE EMBARKED ON THE COURSE TOWARDS LIQUIDATING THE SOVIET UNION, RUINING THE STATE AND SEIZING POWER AT ANY COST. THE RESULTS OF THE NATIONWIDE REFERENDUM ON MOTHERLAD'S UNITY HAVE BEEN TRAMPLED UPON. CYNICAL SPECULATIONS ON NATIONAL FEELINGS ARE MERELY A SMOKESCREEN TO SATISFY AMBITIONS. NEITHER TODAY'S MISFORTUNES OF THEIR PEOPLES, NOR THEIR TOMORROW WORRY POLITICAL ADVENTURISTS. IN CREATING AN ATMOSPHERE OF MORAL AND POLITICAL TERROR AND SEEKING TO HIDE BEHIND THE SHIELD OF POPULAR TRUST, THEY FORGET THAT THE RELATIONS THEY CONDEMN AND DISRUPT WERE ESTABLISHED ON T E BASIS OF FAR BROADER POPULAR SUPPORT WHICH, BESIDES, HAS PASSED THE CENTURIES-LONG TEST OF HISTORY. TODAY, THOSE WHO ARE IN FACT WORKING TOWARDS THE OVERTHROW OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL SXSTEM SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO+ ACCOUNT BEFORE MOTHERS AND FATHERS FOR THE DEATH OF THE HUNDREDS OF VICTIMS OF INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS. THE FATE OF MO THAN HALF A MILLION REFUGEES IS ON THEIR CONSCIENCE. THEY ARE TO BLAME FOR THE LOSS OF TRANQUILITY AND THE JOY OF LIVING OF TENS OF MILLIONS OF SOVIET PEOPLE WHO ONLY YESTERDAY LIVED IN A UNITED FAMILY BUT TODAY FOUND THEVSELVES LIVING AS OUTCASTS IN THEIR OWN HOME. PEOPLE SHOULD DECIDE WHAT SOCIAL SYSTEM SHOULD EXIST, BUT ATTEMPTS ARE BEING MADE TO DEPRIVE THEM OF THIS R+IGHT. MORE + MSK 15.54 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA151 E INF 1495 TASS ED459 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + Z .URGENT--ADDRESS TO SOVIET IEOPLE--FULL =2. 19/8 TASS 14 INSTEAD OF SHOWING CONCERN FOR THE SECURITY AND WELL-BEING OF EVERY CITIZEN AND ALL SOCIETY, PERSONS THAT HAVE COME TT POSITIONS OF POWER NOT INFREQUENTLY USE IT FOR INTERESTS ALIEN TO THE PEOPLE, AS A MEANS FOR UNSCRUPULOUS SELF-ASSERTION. TORRENTS OF WORDS AND PILES OF DECLARATIONS AND PROMISES ONLY UNDERLINE THE SCANTY AND MEAGER NATURE OF THEIR PRACTICAL DEEDS. +THE INFLATION OF AUTHORITY IS DESTROYING OUR STATE AND SOCIETY IN A MORE FRIGHTENING WAY THAN ANY OTHER. EVERY CITIZEN IS FEELING INCREASVNG UNCERTAINTY ABOUT TMMORRTW AND DEEP CONCERN ABOUT THE FUTURE OF HIS OR HER CHILDREN. T ZWUKCOY CRISIS HAS HAD CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS ON THE ECONOMY. THE CHAOTIC, SPONTANEOUS SLIDE TOWARDS A MARKET PROVOKED AN EXPLOSION OF EGOISM -- REGIONAL, DEPARTMENTAL. GROUP AND PERSONAL. THE WAR OF LAWS AND ENCOURAGEMENTOF CENTRIFUGAL TENDENCIES SPELLED DESTRU+CTION OF THE INTEGRAL NATIONAL ECONOMIC MECHANISM THAT HAS BEEN SHAPING FOR DECADES. THE RESULT INCLUDES SHARP DROPS IN THE LIVING STANDARDS OF THE VAST MAJORITY OF THE SOVIET PEOPLE, AND THE +BLOSSOMING OF PROFITEERING AND THE SHADOW ECONOMY. IT IS HIGH TIME PEOPLE WERE TOLD THE TRUTH: IF URGENT AND DECISIVE MEASURES ARE NOT ADOPTED TO STABILISE THE ECONOMY, HUNGER AND ANOTHER SPIRAL OF IMPOVERISHMENTIRE IMMINENT IN THE NEAR FUTURE,=!49. WHICH IT IS JUST A STEP FROM MASS MANIFESTATIONS OF SPON+TANEOUS DISCONTENT WITH DEVASTATING CONSEQUENCES. ONLY IRRESPONSIBLE PEOPLE CAN BANK ON SOME AID FROM ABROAD. NT HAND-OUTS CAN SBLVE OUR PROBLEMS, OUR RESCUE IS IN OUR OWN HANDS. THE TIME HAS COME TO MEASURE THE AUTHORITY OF EVERY PERSON AND ORGANISATION BY THEIR REAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE REHABILITATION AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY. FOR LONG YEARS, WE HAVE HEARD INCANTATIONS FROM ALL SIDWS ABOUT THE COMMITMENT TO THE INTERESTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND CONCERN FOR INDIVIDUAL RIGH+TS AND SOCIAL SECURITY. IN FACT, MAN HAS FOUND HIMSELF HUMILIATED AND DESPERATE, HIS REAL RIGHTS AND POSSIBILITIES INFRINGED UPON. ALL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS CREATED BY THE POPULAR WULL ARE LOSING WENGHT AND EFFECTIVENESS RIGHT IN FRONT OF OUR EYES. THIS IS A RESULT OF PURPOSEFUL ACTIONS BY THOSE WHO, GROSSLY VIOLATING THE FUNDAMENTAL LAW OF THE USSR, ARE EFFECTIVELY IN THE PROCESS OF STAGING AN ANTICONSTITUTIONAL COUP AND STRIVING FOR UNBRIDLED PERUONAL DICTATORIAL POWERS. PREFECTURES, MAYOR+ALTIES AND OTHER ILLEGAL STRUCTURES ARE INCREASINGLY REPLACING, DE FACTO, POPULARLY-ELECTED GOVERN TD COUNCILS. MORE + MSK 16.02 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN VVVV ZCZCKNA154 E INF 0615 TASS DD582 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + Z .URGENTW AADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =3. 19/8 TASS 14 AN OFFENSIVE IS UNDER WAY ON THE RIGHTS OF WORKING PEOPLE. THE RIGHTS TO WORK, EDUCATION, HEALTH, HOUSING AND LEISURE ARE IN JEOPARDY. EVEN THE ELEMENTARY PERSONAL SECURITY OF PEOPLE IS INCREASINGLY UNDER THREAT. CRIME IS FAST ON THE INCREASE, GETTING ORGANISED AND POLITICISED. THE COUNTRY IS SINKING INTO THE QUAGMIRE OF VIOLENCE AND LAWLESSNESS. NEVER BEFORE +IN NATIONAL HISTORY HAS THE PROPAGANDA OF SEX AND VIOLENCE ASSUMED SUCH A SCALE, THREATENING THE HEALTH AND LIVES OF FUTURE GENERATIONS. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING MEASURES AGAINST THE OCTOPUS OF CRIME AND GLARING IMMORALITY. THE INCREASING DESTABILISATION OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THE SOVIET UNION IS UNDERCUTTING OU POSITIONS IN THE WORLD. REVANCHIST NOTES ARE TO BE HEARD IN SOME PLACES AND DEMANDS ARE BEING MADE FOR A REVIEW OF OUR BORDERS. VOICES CAN EVEN BE HEARD SPEA+KING OF DISMEMBERING THE SOVIET UNION AND OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL GUARDIANSHIP OVER INDIVIDUAL FACILITIES AND REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. SUCH IS THE BITTER REALITY. W+HEREAS ONLY YESTERDAY A SOVIET PERSON FINDING HIMSELF ABROAD FELT HIMSELF A WORTHY CITIZEN OF AN INFLUENTIAL AND RESPECTED STATE, NOW HE IS OFTEN A SECOND-RATE FOREIGNER, THE ATTITUDE TO WHOM IS MARKED BY EITHER CONTEMPT OR SYMPATHY. THE PRIJE AND HONOUR OF SOVIET PEOPLE MUST BE RESTORED IN FULL. MORE+ MSK 16.06 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA155 E INF 0718 TASS CD412 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + ZZ .URGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =4. 19?, TASS 14 THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR IS FULLY AWARE OF THE DEPTH OF THE CRISIS THAT HAS AFFLICTED THE COUNTRY, IT TAKES UPON ITSELF THE RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FATE OF THE COUNTRY AND IS FULLY DETERMINED TO TAKE MOST SERIOUS MEASURES TO TAKE THE STATE AND SOCIETY OUT OF THE CRISIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE PROMISE TO HOLD A NATIONWIDE DISCUS+SION OF THE DRAFT NEW UNION TREATY. EACH INDIVIDUAL WILL HAVE THE RIGHT AND OPPORTUNITY TO THINK OVER THIS MAJOR ACT AND DEFINE HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD IT, BECAUSE THE FATE OF NUMROUS PEOPLES OF OUR GREAT MOTHERLAND WILL DEPEND ON WHAT THE SOVIET UNION WILL BE LIKE. WE INTEND TO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER STRAIGHT AWAY, END BLOODSHED, DECLARE A WAR WITHOUT MERCY TO THE CRIMINAL WORLD, ERADICATE SHAMEFUL PHENOMENA DISCREDITING OUR SOCIETY AND DEGRADING SOVIET CITIZENS. WE SHALL CLEAN THA STRE TS OF OUR +CITIES FROM CRIMINAL ELEMENTS AND PUT AN END TO ARBITRARINESS OF THE SQUANDERERS OF THE NATIONAL WEALTH. WE FAVOUR GENUINE DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES, A CONSISTENT REFORM POLICY LEADING TO THE RE+NEWAL OF OUR MOTHERLAND, ITS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL POSPERITY WHICH WILL ENABLE IT TO TAKE A WORTHY PLACE IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONS. THE COUNTRY'S DEVELOPMENT MUST NOT BE BUILT UPON THE DECLINING STANDARDS OF LIVING OF THE PEOPLE. A CONSISTENT RISE IN THE LIVING STANDARDS OF ALL CITIZENS WILL BECOME +THE NORM IN A HEALTHY SOCIETY. WITHOUT REDUCING CARE FOR STRENGTHENING AND PGMTECTING TH INTERESTS OF THE WIDEST LAYERS OF THE POPULATION, THOSE WHO ARE THE HARDEST HIT BY INFLATION.#PRODUCTION DISORGANISATION, CORRUPTION AND CRIME. DEVELOPING THE MAY-TIER CHARACTER OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, WE SHALL SUPPORT PRIVATENENTERPRISE, GRANTING IT NECESSARY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OX PVODUCTION AND SERVICES. MORE MSK 16.12 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA156 E INF 0705 TASS DD581 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + ZZ .URGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =5. 19/8 TASS 14 OUR PRIME CONCERN IS THE SOLUTION OF THE FOOD AMD HOUSING PROBLEMS. ALL AVAILABLE FORCES WILL BE MOBILIZED TO MEET THESE, THE MOST ESSENTIAL NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE. H WE ARE CALLING UPON WORKERS, PEASANTS, WORKING INTELLIGENTSIA, ALL SOVIET PEOPLE TO RESTORE, WUTHIMNOHE BRIEFEST P RIOD OF TIME, LABOUR DISCIPLINE AND ORDER, RAISE THE LEVEL OF PRODUCTION IN ORDER+ TO RESOLUTELY MARCH AHEAD. OUR LIFE AND THE FUTURE OF OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, THE FATE OF THE MOTHERLAND DEPEND ON THIS. WE ARE A PEAVE-LOVING COUNTRY AND SHALL UNDEVIATINGLY HONOUR ALL OUR COMMITMENTS. WE HAVEINO CLAIMS TO MAKE AGAINST ANYBODY. WE WANT TO LIVE IN PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH ALL. BUT WE FIRMR DECLARE THAT NO ONE WILL BE EER ALLOWED TO ENCROACH UPON OUR SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INEGR TY. ALL ATTEMPTS TO TALK THE LANGUAGE OF DIKTAT TO OUR COUNTRY, NO MA+TTER WHERE THEY MAY COME FROM, WILL BE RESOLUTELY SUPPRESSED. OUR MULTINATIONAL PEOPLE HAS LIVED FOR CENTURIES PROUD OF THEIR MOTHERLAND, WE HAVE NEVER BEEN ASHAMED OF OUR PATRIOTIC FEELINGS +AND WE HOLD IT NATURAL AND RIGHTFUL TO RAISE THE PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CITIENS OF THIS GREAT POWER IN THIS SPIRIT. TO REMAIN INACTIVE AT THIS HOUR OF CRISIS FOR THE FATE OF THE MOTHERLAND MEANS TO TAKE UPON ONESELF THE HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TRAGIC, TRULY UNPRUDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES. EA+CH INDIVIDUAL WHO HOLDS OUR MOTHERLAND DEAR, WHO WANTS TO LIVE AND WORK IN PEACE AND CONFIDENCE, WHO DOES NOT ACQUIESCE TO THE CONTINUATION OF THE BLOODY INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS, WHO SEES HIS MOTHERLAND INDEPENDENT AND PROSPERING IN THE FUTURE MUST MAKE THE ONLY RIGHT CHOICE. WE CALL ON ALL TRUE PATRIOTS, PETNLE OF GOOD WILL TO PUT AN END TO THE PRESENT TIME OF UNCERTAINTY. MORE MSK 16.17 QOAPIAQOOQ NNMM ZCZCKNA157 E INF 0173 TASS ED453 E220 EN E22 PPQ +EMERGENCY-ADDRESS + ZZ .URGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVCET PEOPLE--FULL =/= 19/8 TASS 14 I WE CALL ON ALL CITIZENS OF THE SOVIET UNION TO GROW AWARE OF THEIR DUTY BEFORE THE COUNTRY AND RENDER ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCEI TO THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR AND EFFORTS TO PULL THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE CRISIS. CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALS FROM SOCNO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS, WORK COLLECTIVES AND INDIVIDIALS WILL BE APPRECIATED AS THE S+HOW OLTHEIR PATRIOTIC REA NESS TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE RESTORATION OF THE CENTURY-OLD FRIENDSHIP IN THE SINGLE FAMILY OF FRATERNAL PEOPLES AND THE RMIVAL OF THE MOTHERLAND. THE STATE COMMITTE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZ ITEM ENDS MSK 16.20 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN TCZCKNA158 E INF 1=84.TAS DD575 E999 EN E999001 +LEADERSHIP-STATEMENT + ZZ .SOVIET LEADEREHIP'S STATEMENT--FULL. 19/8 VTASS 13 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - FOLLOWS THE FULL STATEMENT BY THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP: IN VIEW OF MIKHAIL SERGEYEVICH GORBACHEV'S INABILITY, FOR HEALTH EASONS, TO PERFORM THE D TPES OF THE USSR PRESIDENT ANDEWPTN THE TRANSFER OF THE USSR PRESIDENT'S POWERS, IN KEEPING WITH PARAGRAPH 7, ARTICLE 127, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION TO USSR VICE- PVESIDENT GENNADY IV+ANOVICH YANAHEV, -- WITH THE AIM OF OVERCOMING THE PROFOUND AND COMPREHENSIVE CRISIS, POLITICAL, ETHNIC AND CIVIL STRIFE, CHAOS ANDANARCHY THAT THREATEN THE L VES AND SECUITY OF THE SOVIET UNION'S CITIZENS AND THE SOVEREIGNTY, TERRITORY INTEGRITY, FREEDOM AMD INDEPENDENCE OF OUR FATHERLAND, -- PROCEEDING FROM THE RESULTS OF THE NATIONWIDE REFERENDUM ON THE PRESERVATION OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, -- AND GUIDED BY THE VITAL INTERESTS OF ALL ETHNUC GROUPS VTIVING IN OUR F+ATHERLAND AND ALL SOVIET PEOPLE, QE RESOLVE: 1. N ACCORDANCE WITH PAHAGRAPH 3, ARTICLE 127, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION AMD ARTICLEN2 OF THE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF A STATE OF +EMERGENCY+ AND WITH DEMANDS BY BROAD POPULAR MASSES TO ADOPT THE MOST DECISIVE MEASURES TT PREVENT SOCIETY FROM SLIDING INTO NATIONAL CATASTROPHE AND ENSURE LAW AND ORDER, TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME PARTS OF THE SOVIET UNION FOR SIX MONTHS FROM 04:00 MOSCOW TIME ON AUGUST 19, QOOQM 2. TO ESTABL+ISH THAT THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR HAVE UNCONDITIONAL PRIORITY THROUG OUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR. 3. TO FORM A STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR IN ORDER TO RUN THE COUNTHY AND EFFECTIVELY EXERCISE THE STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGIME, CONSIST OD OF: O.D. BAKLANOV, FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE USSR DEFENCE COUNCIL, V.A. KRYUCHKOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE KGB, V.S. PAVLOV, PRIME MINISTER OF THE USSR, B.K. PUGO, ITERIOR MINISTER OF THE USSR, V.A. STARODU+BTSEV, CHAIRMAN OF WHE DARMERS' UNION OF THE USSJ, A.I. TIZYAKOV, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENTERPRISES AND INDUSTRIAL, CONSTRUCTIOMK)TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS FACILITIES OF THENUSSC, D.T.YAZOV, DEFENCE MINISTER OF THE USSR, G.I. YANAYEV, ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE USSR. 4. TO ESTABLISH THAT THE USSR STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EME OEMCY'S DECISIONS ARE XANDATORY FOR UNSWERVING FULFILMENTEWPBY ALL AGENCIES OF POWER AND ADMINISTRATION, OFFINIALS AND CITIZENEEAUFVIKXM+UT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR. SIGNED: G.YANAYEV NV. PAVLOV O. BAKLANOV ITEM ENDS + MSK 16.27 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA159 E INF 0=UVTASS BD584 E220 EN E220001 +UNION-YANATEV + ZZ .VICE-PRESIDENT YANAYEV TAKES OVER AS ACTING PRESIDENT. 19/8 TASS 25 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - IN A DECREE MADE PUBLIC IN THE SOVIET UNION TODAY, VICE-PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEVNNJPOUNCED THAT MIKHAIL GORLACHEV IS UNABLE TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES AS NATIONAL PRESIDENT FOR HEALTH REASONS9 ON HE STRENGTH OF ARTICLE 127, CLAUSE 7, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION, YANAYEV, TRN ASSUMED THE DUTIES OF SOVIET PRESIDENT FROM AUGUST 19, QOOQM + THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP TODAY RELEASED A STATEMENT ANNOUNCINL O THE DECISION TO IMPOSE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME PARTS OF THE USSR FOR A PERIOD OF SIX MONTHS, IN EFFECT FROM 4:00 AM MOSCOW TIME, AUGUST 19, QOOQN AND DECLARING THAT THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR TAKE UNCONDITIONAL PRECEDENCE THROUGHOUT SOVIET TERRITORY. A TO GOVERN THE COUNTRY AND EXERCISE WITH EFFICIENCY STATE OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS, A DECISIO HAS BEEN ADOPTED TO SET UP A STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN TH+E USSR. THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP'S STATEMEN INDICATES THAT DECISIONS BY THE COOMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY ARE MANDATORY FOR ALL BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT, OFFIRIALS AND CITUZ+ANS THROUGHOUT SOVIET TERRITORY. THE STATEMENT HAS BEEN SIGNZD BYNYANAYEV, SOVIET PRIME MINISTER VALENTIN PAVLOV AND FIRSTEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE DEFENCE COUNCIL OLEG BAKLANOV. IN A STAMENT CIRCULATED THIS MOGNING, ANATOLY LUKYANOV, CHAIRMAN OF THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET, CRITICISED TTE PUBLISHED TEXT +OF THE UNION TREATY. L LUKYANOV OBSERVED THAT THE SUPREME SOVIET'S REMARKS ABOUT TH EXPEDIENCY OF ENVISAGING IN THE DRAFT UNION TREATY THE EXISTENCE OF A SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE, A SINGLE BANKING SYSTEM AND THE PRESARV TION OF UNION PROPERTY, DEMAND FOR THE FIXATION OF INDEPENDENT TAX DEDUCTIONS INTO THA UNION BUDGET AND SEVERAL OTHER PROVISIONS WER NOT DULY REFLECTED IN THE TEXT. ALL THESE PROBLEMS, LUKYANOV STATED, DEMAND ADDITIONAL DISCUSSIONS AT THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET AND THEN, PROBABLY, ZAT THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES. YANAYEV'S ADDRESS TO HEADS OF STATE AND GOVERNMENT AND THE U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL WAS MADE PUBLIC IN MOSCOW TODAY. YANAYEV EMPHASISED THAT THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MEASURES IN NO WAY AFFECT THE INTERNATIONAL COMMITMENTS ASSUMED BY THE SOVIET UION UNDER EXISTING TREATIES ANGLAGREEMENTS. THE USSR IS PREPARED TO DEVELOP ITS RELATIONS WITH ALL STATE ON THE BASIS OF UNIVERSALLY RECOGNISED PRINCIPLES OF GOOD- NEIGHBOURLINESS, EQUALITY, MUTUAL BENEFIT AND+ NON-INTERFERENCE T IN ONE ANOT R'S AFFAIRS. YANAYEV EXPRESSED CONFIDENCE THAT THE CURRENT DIFFICULTIES ARE TRANSITORY IN CHARACTER AND THE SOVIET UNI+ON'S CONTRIBUTION TO PREUERVING PEACE AND CONSOLIDATING INTERNATIONAL SECURITY WILL REMAIN SUBSTANTIAL. THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP HOPES, THE ADDRESS SAYS, THAT THE TEMPORARY EMERGENCY MAASURES WILL FIND PROPER UNDERSTANDING ON THE PART OF PEOPLES AND GOVERNMENTS AND THE UNITED NATQONS ORGANISATION. THE CTMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN T+HE USSR, IN AN APPEAL TO THE SOVIET PEOPLE, DECLARD THAT IT ASSUMES FULL RESPONSIBILITR FOR THE FATE OF MOTHERLAND AND IS FULLY RESOLVED O TO UNDERTAKE MOST SERIOUSIMEASURES TO LEAD THE STATE AND SOCIETY OUT OF CRISIS. +WE DVOCATENTRULY DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES AND CMNSISTENT REFORM POLICIES HELPINGNUPDATE OUR MOTHERLAND AND ACHIEVE ITS ECONOMIC ND SOCIAL PROSPERITY, WHICH WILL ENABLE IT O TAKE A WORTHY PLACE INNTHE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONSGNZ THE COMMITTEE'S ADDRESS SAID. +WE ARE A PEACE-L+OVING NATION AND WILL UNFAILINGLY HONOUR ALL ASSUMED COMMITMENTS,+ THE COMMITTEE STRESSED. +ANY ATTEMPTS AT TALKING TO OUR COUNTRY IN THE LANGUAGE OF DICTATES, NT MATTER BY WHOM, WILL BE DECISIVELY CUT SHORT,+ IT ADDED. ITEM ENDS MSK 16.38 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA160 E INF 0674 TASS DD574 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEESS RESOLUTION--FULL =1. (FIVE TAKES) 19/8 TASS 33 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASSNA THE TATE COMMITTEEYAR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY ISSUED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION NO. Q HERE TODAY: WITH A VIEW TO PROTECTING THE VITAL INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLES AND CITIZENS OF THE USSR AND THE COUNTRY'S INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, RESTORING LAW AND ORDER, STABILISING THE SITUATION, OVERCO+MING THE GRAVEST CRISIS, AND PREVENTING CHAOS, ANARCHY AND A FRATRICIDAL VIVIL WAR, THERE8:9):9..85533 FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR RESOLVES: 1. ALL BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION TF THE USSR, UNION AND AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICS, TERRITORIES, REGIONS, CITIES, DISTRICTS, VILLAGES AND SETTLEMENTS SHOULD ENSURE NFAILING COMPLIANCE WITH STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGULATIONS IN KEEPING NTH THE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY+ AND WITH THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE O+F EMERGENCY'S RESOLUTIONS. IN THE EVENT OF THEIR INABILITY TO ENSURE THE OBSERVANCE OF THESE REGULATIONS, THE POWERS OF THE PECTIVE BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION ARE TO BE SUSPENDE+D, WITH THEIR FUNCTIONS TO BE EXERCISED BY OFFICIALS SPECIALLY APPOINTED BY TMLSTATECOMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY. 2. TO IMMEDIATELY DISMANTLE T E STRUCTURES OF POWER, ADMINISTRATION AND MILITARISED UNITS ACTING CONTRARY TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR. 3. TO REGARD THE LAWS AND DECIS+IONS BYBODIES OF POWER AND ADMINISTRATION THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR AS BEING HENCEFORTH INVALID. 4. TO SUSPEND THE ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL PARTIESN SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS AND MASS MOVEMENTS THAT PREVENT THE NORMALISATION OF THE SITUATION. MORE MSK 16.43 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA161 E INF 0678 TASS BD578 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S REDMLUTION--FULL =2. 19/8 TASS 33 5. IN CONNECTION WITH THE FACT THAT THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR TEMPORARILY ASSUMES FUNCTIONS OF THE USSR SECURITY COMMITTEE, THE ACTIVITY OF THE LATTER IS SUSPENDED. 6. CITIZENS, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANISATIONS SHOULD HAND IN WITHOUT DELAY ALLNTYPES OF FIRE-ARMS, MUNITIONS, EXPLOSIVES, MILITARY HARDWAR+E AND EQUIPMENT IN THEIR UNLAWFUL POSSESSION. THE INTERIOR MINISTRY, THE KGB AND THE DEFENCE MINISTRY OF THE USSR SHOULD SECURE STRICT COMPLIANCE WITH THIS DEMAND. IN CASE OF REFUSAL, TO CONFISCATE THEM IN A COMPULSORY ORDER AND BRING OFFENDERS TO STRICT CRIMNNAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT. 7. THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFICE, THE INTERIOR MINISTRY, THE KGB AND THE DEFENCE MINIETRY OF THE USSR SHOULD ORGANISE EFFECTIVE INTERACTITN OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT BODIES AND THE ARMED FORCES TO ENSURE PROTECTION OF PUB+LIC ORDER AND SECURITY OF THE STATE, SOCIETY AND CITIZENS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE USSR LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY+ AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE O+F EMERGENCY IN THE USSR. RALLIES, STREET MARCHES, DEMONSTRATIONS AND STRIKES ARE NOT ALLOWED. IN CASE OF NEED, TO INTRODUCE CURFEW, PATROL TERRITORY, CONDUCT EXAMINATION AND ADOPT MEASURES FOR ENHANCING THE BORDER AND CUSTOMS REGIME. TO ESTABLISH CONTROL, AND IN NECESSARY CASES PROTECTION, OVER MA+JOR STATE AND ECONOMIC FACILITIES, AND LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS. RESOLUTELY TO CURB THE DISSEMINATION OF INSTIGATORY RUMOURS AL ACTIONS IROVOKING VIOLATIONS OF LAW AND ORDER AND KINDLING OF INTER-ETHNIC TRIFE, DISOBEDIENCE TO OFFICIALS SECURING OBSERVANCE OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS. MORE MSK 16.49 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA162 E INF 0664 TASS CD553 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .STATE-OX-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION--FULL =3. 19/8 TASS 33 8. TO ESTABLISH CONTROL OVER THE MASS MEDIA, ENTRUSTING IT TO AN AGENCY SPECIALLY SET UP UNDER THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY. 9. BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION AND HEADS OF ORGANISATIONS AND ENTERPRISES, SHOULD TAKE MEASURES TO INCREASE ORGANISATION AND RESTORE ORDER AND DISCIPLINE TO ALL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC LIFE+. TO ENSURE THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF ENTERPRISES IN ALL SECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, THE STRICT FULFILMENT OF MEASURES TO PRESERVE AND RESTORE, FOR THE STABILISATION PEIOD, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL TIES BETWEEN SUBJECTS OF ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR, AND THE UNFAILING ACHIEVEMENT OF PLANNED TARGETS REGARDING PRODUCTION AND SUPPLIES OF RAW AND OTHER MATERIALS AND COMPONENTS. TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AUSTERITY ARRANGEMENTS CONCERNING THE USE OF MATERIALS, EQUIPM+ENT AND FOREIGN CURRENCY, AND TO WORK OUT AND IMPLEMENT SPECIFIC MEASURES TO COMBAT MISMANAGEMENT AND THE SQUANDERING OF PUBLIC WEALTH. TO WAGE A DECISIVE STRUGGLE AGAINST THE SHADOW ECONO+MY AND INEXORABLY ENFORCE MEASURES OF CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY IN INSTANCES OF CORRUPTION, THEFT, PROFITEERING, GOODS CONCEALMENT, BUNGLED MANAGEMENT AND OTHER ECONOMIC WRONGDOING. TO CREATE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS FOR ALL FORMS TN ENTERPRISE THAT COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE USSR TO INCREAS+E THEIR REAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL AND MEET VITAL POHULAR NEEDS. 10. TO CONSIDER REGULAR WORK ON STRUCTURES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION INCOMPATIBLE WITH MOONLIGHTING IN ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPACITY. MORE MSK 16.54 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA163 E INF 0698 TASS DD571 E999 EN E999007 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEELRESOLUTION -- FULL =4. 19/8 TASS 33 11. THE CABINET OF MINISTERS IS HEREBY INSTRUCTED TO TAKE STOCK OF ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES OF FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS AND REPORT TO THE PEOPLE WHAT THE COUNTRY HAS AT ITS DISPOSAL, TAKE UNDER STRICT CONTROL THEIR PRESERVATION AND DISTRIBUTION. ANY RESTRICTIONS ESTABLISHED TO PREVENT TRANSPORTATION AQROSS THE USSR TERRITORY OF+ FOODSTUFFS AND CONSUMER GOODS, AS WELL AS MATERIAL RESOURCES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION, SHOULD BE PROCAIMED NULL AND VOI, EXERSISING DILIGENT CONTROL OVER THE OBSERVANCE OF THIS ODER. SPECIAL ATTENTION SHOULD BE PAID TO PRIORITY SUPPLIES TO PRE-SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENTS, ORPHANAGES, SCHOOLS, SPECIALIZED SECONDARY AND HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS AND HOSPITALS, AS WELL AS PENSIONERS AND DISABLED PEREONS. POPOSALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED WITHIN A WEEK FOR STREAMLINING, FREEZING OR REDUCING PRICES+ FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF CONSUMER GOODS AND FOODSTUFFS - FIRST OF ALL THOSE INTENDED FOR CHILDREN - EVERYDAY SERVICES AND PUBLIC CATERING, AS WELL S RAISING WAGES, PENSIONS AND COMPENSATION +SUMS TO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF CITIZENS. MEASURES SHOULD BE WORKED OUT WITHIN TWO WEEKS TO STREAMLINE THE SIZE OF PAY TO THE LEADERS AT ALL LEVELS OF STATE, PUBLIC, COOPERATIVE OR OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS, ORGANISATIONS AND ENTERPRISES. 12. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE CRITICAL SITUAT ON IN HARVESTING AND TH+E THREAT OF FAMINE, EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES SHOULD BE TAKEN TO ORGANISE THE PROCUREMENT, STORAGE AND PROCESSING OF FARM PRODUCE. MAXIMUM AID SHOULD BE RENDERED TO AGRICULTURAL WORKERS BY PROVIDING MACHINERY, SPARE PARTS, FUEL AND LUBRICANTS, ETC. ENTERPRISE AND OFFICE WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES, STUDENTS AND SERVICEMEN IN NECESSARY NUMBERS SHOULD BE PROMPTLY SENT TO THE COUNTRY TO SAVE THE HARVEST. MORE MK 16.59 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA164 E INF 0543 TASS AD903 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZT .STATE-OF-EMERGENCQ COMMITTEE RESOLUTION -- FULL = TM 19/8 TASS 33 13. THE CABINET OF MINISTERS IS HEREBY INSTRUCTED TO WORK OUT, WITHIN A WEEK, A RESOLUTION TO ENSURE THE PROVISION IN 1991 AND 1992 OF PLOTS OF LAND FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE-GROWING, MEASURING UP TO O, QT HECTARE, TO EACH AND EVERY CITY DWELLER WHO SO WISHES. 14. THE CABINET ON MINISTERS OF THE USSR SHOULD COMPLETE, WITHIN TWO WEE+KS, THE DRAWING UP OF PLAN FOR EMERGENCY MEASURES TO BE TAKEN TO PULL THE COUNTRY'S FUEL- ND-POWER COMPLEX OUT OF THE CRISIS AND PREPARE FOR THE WINTER. 15. PRACTICAL MEASURES FOR 1992 SHOULD BE PREVARED AD REPORTED TO THE PEOPLE TO RADICALLY IMPROVE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION AND ENSURE THE PROVISION OF HOUSING TO PEOPLE. WITHIN SIX MONTHS, A PRACTICAL PROGRAMME SHOULD BE WORKED OUT TO EXPEDITE THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATE, COOPERATIVE AND INDIVIDUA HOUSE-BUILDING IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. 16+. IT IS HEREBY MADE INCUMBENT ON THE CENTRAL AND LOCAL BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT TO PAY PRIORITY ATTENTION TO PEOPLE'S SOCIAL NEEDS AND PINPOINT ARE S FOR SUBSTANTI L IMPROVEMENT OF FR+EE HEALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC EDUCATION. ITEM ENDS MSK 17.02 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA165 E INF 0466 TASS DD679 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-INTERIOR + ZZ .INTERIOR MINISTRY TO SECURE CIVIL INTERESTS. 19/8 TASS 45 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - REPLYING TO A QUESTION FROM TASS ABOUT THE SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTRS'S MEASURES IN CONNECTION WITH THE KNOWN DECISIONS ZY THE COUNTRY'S POLITICAL LEADERSHIP, ANDREI CHERNENKO, CHIEF OF THE INTERIOR MINISTRY'S PUBLIC LIAISON CENTRE SAID: AT THIS MOMENT, THE LEADERSHIP OF THE SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTRY GIVES MOST SERIOUS ATTENTION TO THE STATE OF PUBLIC +ORDER. SOVIET INTERNOR MINISTER BORIS PUGO PLAVED CHIEF EMPHASIS AT A WORKING MEETING TO THE NEED TO ENHANCE THE PROTECTION OF CIVIL INTERESTS OF THE COUNTRY' POPULATION IRRESPECTIVE OF THE PLACE OF DOMICILE, NATIONALITY OR SOCNFLUPICNMPPKL THE UNCONDITIONAL RECREATION OF THE VERTICAL STRUCTURE OF THE COUNTRY'S INTERIOR MINISTRY BODIES WAS NAMED AS A NECESSARY MEASURE FOR THE SUCCESRY8:2.0)3.3,5-589, OF THIS PROGRAMME. COGRESPONING INFORMATION IS BEING CONVEYED TO THE EGIONAL INTERIOR MI+NISTRIES. V ITEM ENES O + MSK 17.06 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ?# .URGENT--SOVIET PARLIAMENT'S SPECIAL SESSION CALLED. 19/8 TASS 56 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE SOVIET PARLIAMENT WILL GO INTO A SPECIUL SESSIONNON AUGUST 26 IN MOSCOW IN VIEW OF THE SUBMISSION FOR ITS ENDORSEMENT OF THE DECISION TO IMPOSE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME PARTS OF THE USSR,,THE PALI.3,5 '03-(34 ANNOUNCED IN A RULING ISSUEDHERE TODAY. ITEM ENDS MSK 17.24 89-08-1991 NNNN ZCZCKNA192 3 INF 0616 TASS DD777 E220 EN E)20001 +EMERGPCY-ADDRESS + ++ .URGENT--ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =3. 19/8 TASS 14 AN OFFENSIVE IS UNDER WAY ON THE RIGHTS OF WORKING PEOVLE. THE R GHTS TO WORK,EDUCATION, HEALTH, HOUSING AND LEISURE ARE IN JEOPARDY. EVEN THE ELEMENTARY PERSONAL SECURITY OF PEOP E IS INCREASINGLY UNDER THREAT. CRIME IS FAST ON THE INCREASE, GETTING ORGANISED AND POLITICISETM THE COUNTRY IS SINKING INTO THE QUAGMIRE OF VIOLENCE AND LAWLESSNESS. NEVAR BEFORE IN N+ATIONAL HISTORY HAS THE PROPAGANDA OF SEX AND VIOLENCE ASSUMED SUCH A SCAL, THEATENING THE HEALTH AND LIVES OF FUTURE GENERATIONS. MILLIONS OF PEOPLE ARE DEMANDING MEASURES AGAINST THE OCTOPUS OF CRIME AND GLARING IMMORALITY. THE INCREASING DESTABILISATION OF THE POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC SITUATION IN THOLSOVIET UNION IS UNDERCUTTING OUR POSITIONS IN THE WORLD. REVANCHIST NOTES ARE TO BE HEARD IN SOME PLACES AND DEMANDS ARE BEING MADE FOR A REVIEW OF OUR BORDERS. VOICES CAN EVEN BE HEARD SPEAKING+ OF DISMEMBERING THE SOVIET UNION AND OF THENPOSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING INTERNATIONAL GUARDIANSHIP OVER INDIVIDUAL FACILIIES AND REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. = '7:# 8' 5#3 ?85534 43-)856. WHEoRsE +ASus ONL Yon ?What? cmd:YESTERusD oAnY USers was 0 USers now 1 cmd: A SOVIET usoPs Eon USOs was OFF USOs now ON cmd:RSON FINDING HIMSELF ABROAD FELT HIMSELF A WORTHY CITIZEN OF AN INFLUENTIAL AND RESPECTED STATE, NOW HE IS OFTEN A SECONB-RATE FOREIGNER, THE ATTITUDE TO WHOM IS MARKED BY EITHER CONTEMPT OR SYMPATHY. THE PRIDE AND HONTIR OF SOVIET PEOPLE MUST BE RESTORED IN XULL. Z ORE + MSKNQUMWI QOAPIAQOOQ NNN ZCZCKNA193 E INF 0718 TASS DD708 E220 EN E220001 +EMEGENCY-ADDRESS + ZZ .URGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOILE--FULL =4. 19/8 TASS 14 THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE UFSR IS FULLY AWARE OF THE DEPTH OF THE CRISIS THAT HAS AFFLICTED THE COUNTRY, IT TAKES UPON ITSELF THE RESPONSIBILITX FOR THE FAT OF THE COUNTRY AND IS FULLY DETERMINED TO TAKE MOST SERIOUS MEASURES TO TAKE THE STATE AND SOCIETY OUT OF THE CRISIS AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. WE PROMISE TO HOLD A NATIONWIDE DI CUSSI+ON OF THE DRAFT NEW UNION TREATY. EACH INDIVIDUAL WILL HAVE THE RIGHT AND OPPORTUNITY TO THINK OVER THIS MARORACT AND DEFINE HIS ATTITUDE TOWARD IT, BECAUSE THE FATE OF NUMEROUS OPLES OF OUR GREAT MOTHERLAND WILL DEPEND ON WHAT THE SOVWET UNION WILL BE LIKE. WEPIAQNJGLTO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER STRAIGHT AWAY, END BLOODSHED, BECLARE A WAR WITHOUT MRCY TO THE CRIMINAL WORLD, ERUDICATE SHAMEFUL PHENOMENA DISCREDITING OUR SOCIETY AND DEGRADING SOVIET CITVZENS. WE SHALL CLEAN THE STREETS OF OUR CI+TIES FROM CRIMINAL ELEMETS AND PUT AN END TO ARBITRARINESS OF THE SQUANDERERS OF THE NATIONAL WEALTH. WE FAVOUR GENUINE DEMOC TIC PROCESSES, A CONSISTENT REFORM POLICY LEADING TO THE RENEW+AL OF OUR MOTHERLAND, ILS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL PROSPERITY WHICH AILL ENABLE IT TO TAKE A WORTHY PLACE IN THE WORLD COMMUNITY OF NATIONS. THE COUNTRY'S DEVELOPMENT MUST NOT BE BUILT UPON THE DECLINING STANDARDS OF LIVING OF THE VNV)3. A CONSISTENT RISE IN THE LIVING STANDARDS OF ALL CITIZENS WILL BECOME TH+E NORM IN A HEALTHY SOCIETY. WITHOUT REDUCING CARE FOR STRENGTHENING AND PROTECTING THE INTERESTS OF THE WIDEST LAYERS OF THE POPULATION, THOSE WHO ARE THE HARDEST HIT BY INFLATION, PRODUCTION DISORGANISATION, CORRUP ON AND CRIME. DEVELOPING THE MAY-TIER CHARACTER OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, WE SHALL SUPPORT PRIVATE ENTERPRISE, GRANTING IT NECESSARY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION AND SERVICES. MORE MSK 17.34 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNNKUKFBOLINF 0707 TASS DD656 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGENCY-ADDRES + ZZ .URGENT -- ADDRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =9 19/8 TASS 14 OUR PRIME CONCERN IS THE SOLUTION OF THE FOOD AND HOUSING PROBLEMS. ALL AVAILABLE FORCES WILL BE MOBILIZED TO MEET THESE, THE MOT ERSENTIAL NEEDS OF THE PEOPLE. W ARE CALLING UPON WORKERS, PEASANTS, WORKING INTELLIGENTSIA, ALL SOVIET PEOPLE TO RESTORE, WITHIN THE BRIEFEST PERIOD OF TIME, LABOUR DISCIPLINE AND ORDER, RAISE THE LEVEL OF PRODUCTION IN ORDER TO RESO+LUTELY MARCH AHEAD. OUR LIFE AND THE FUTURE OD OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN, THE FATE OF THE MOTHERLAND DEPEND ON THIS. WE ARE A PEACE-LOVING COUNTRY AND SHALL UNDEV ATINLLY HONOUR ALL OUR COMMITMENTS. WE HAVE NO CLAIMS TO MAKE AGAINS ANYBOBFKVL WENWANT TO LIVE IN PEACE AND FRIENDSHII WITH ALL. BUT WE FIRMLY DECLARE THAT NO ONE WILL BE EVER ALLOWED TO ECROUCH UPON OUR SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDOPCE AND ERRITORIAL INTEGRITY. ALL ATTEMPTS TO TALK THE LANGUAGE OF DITAT TO OUR COUNTRY, NO MATTER WHE+RE THEY MAY COME FROM, WILL BE RESOUTELY SUPPRESSED. O OUR MULTINATIONAL PEOPLE HAS LIVED FOR CENTURIES ROUD OF THEIR MOTHERLAND, WE HAVE NEVR BEEN ASHAMED OF OUR PATRIOTIC FEELINGS AND WE H+OLD IT NATURAL AND RIGHTFUL TO RAISE THE PRESENT AND FUTURE GENERATIONS OF CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT POWER IN THIS SPIRIT. TO REMAIN INACTIVE AT THIS HOUR OF CRISIS FOR THE FATE OF THE MOTHERLAND MEANS TO TAKE UPON ONESELF THE HEAVY RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE TRAGIC, TRULY UNPREDICTABLE CONSEQUENCES. EACH INDI+VIDUAL WHO HOLDS OUR MOTHERLAND DEAR, WHO WANTS TO LIVE AND WORK IN PEACE AND CONFIDENCE, WHO DOES NOT ACQUIESCE TO THE CONTINUATION OF THE BLOODY INTER-ETHNIC CONFLICTS, WHO SEES HIS MOTHERLAND INDEPENDENT AND PROSPERING IN THE FUTIRE MUST OAKE THE ONLY RIGHT CHOIVE. WE CALL ON ALL TRUE PATRIOTS, PEOPLE OF GOOD WILL TO PUT AN END TO THE PRESENT TIME OF UNCERTAINTY. MORE MSK 17.39 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA195 E INF 0173 TASS AD609 E220 EN E220001 +EMERGNCY-ADDRESS + ZZ .URGENT -- ADBRESS TO SOVIET PEOPLE--FULL =6. 19/8 TASS 14 WE CALL ON ALL CITIZENS OF THE SOVIET UNION TO GROW AWARE OF THEIR DUTY BEFORE THE COUNTRY AND RENDER ALL POSSIBLE ASSISTANCE TO THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR AND EFFORTS TO PULL THE COUNTRY OUT OF THE CRISVBKL CONSTRUCTIVE PROPOSALS FROM SOCIO-POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS, WORK COLLECTIVES AND INDIVIDUALS WILL BE APPRECIATED AS THE SHOW OF +THEIR PATRIOTIC READINESS TO ACTIVELY PARTICIPATE IN THE RESTORATION OF THE CENTURY-OLD RIENDSHIP IN THE SINGLE FAMILY OF FRATERNAL PEOPLES AND THE REVIVAL OF THE MOTHERLAND. THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR AUGUST 18, QOOQZ ITEM ENDS MSK 17.42 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN V ZCZCKNA196 E INF 0649 TASS CD530 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .UTATE-OF-MERGENCY COMMITTEE'SRESOLUTIONMNFULL =1. WKFIVE TAKES) 19/8 TASS 33 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY ISSUED THE FOLLOWING RESOLUTION NO. Q HERE TODAY: WITH A VIEW TO PROTECTING THE VITAL INTERESTS OD THE PEOPLES AND CITIZENS OF THE USSR AND THE COUNTRY S INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY, RESTORING LAW AND ORDER, STABILISING THE SIUATION, OVERCOMING TH+E GRAVES CRISIS, AND PREVENTING CHAOS, ANARCHY AND A FRATRICIDAL CIVIL WAR, THE ATE MOMMITTEE FOR TE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR RESOLVES: 1. ALL BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION OF THE USSR, UNION AND AUTONOMTUS REPUBLICS, TERRITORIES, REGIONS, CITIES, DISTRICTS, VILLAGES AN SETTLEMENTS SHOULD ENSURE UNFAILING COMPLIANCE WITH STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGULATIONS IM KEEPING WITH THE USSR LAW +OJLTHE LEGAL REGIME OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY+ AND WITH THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERG+ENCY'S RESOLUTIONS. IN THE EVENT OF THEIR INABILITY TO ENSURE THE OBSERVANCE +OF THESE REGULATIONS, THE POWERS OF TH RESPECTIVE BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISATION ARE TO BE SUSPENDED, WITH THEIR FUNCTIONS TO BE EXERCISED BY OFFICIALS SPECIALLY APPOINTED BY THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY. 2. TO IMMEDIATELY DISMANTLE THE STRUCTURES OF POWER, ADMINISTRATION AND MILITARISED UNITS ACTING CONTRARY TO THE NONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR. 3. TO REGARD THE LAWS AND DECISIONS BY+ BODIES OF POWER AND ADMINISTRATION THAT RUN COUNTER TO THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE USSR AS BEING HENCEFORTH INVALID. 4. TO SUSPEND THE ACTIVITIES OF POLITICAL PARTIES, SOCIAL ORGANISATIONS AND MASS MOVEMENTS THAT PREVENT THE NORMALISATION OF THE SITUATION. MORE MSK 17.47 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA197 E INF 0678 TASS BD864 E999 EN E9990=O+EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .STATE-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION--FULL =2. 19/8 TASS 33 TDG 5. IN CONNECTION WITH THE FANT THAT THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN TVOLUSSR TEMPORARILY ASSUMES FUMCTIONS OF THE USRR SECURITY COMMITTEEKJLTHE ACTIVITY OF THE LATTER IS SUSPENDED. 6. CITIZENS, INSTITUTIONS AND ORGANIATIONS SHOULD HAND IN WITHOUT DELAY ALL TYPAS OF FIRE-ARMS, MUNITIONS, EXPTOSIVES, M LITARY HARDWARE A+ND EQUIPMENT IN THEIR UNLAWFUL POSSESSION. THE INTERIOR MINISTRY, THE KGB AND THE DEFENCE MIMISTRY OF THE USSR SHOULD SECURE STRICT COMPLIANCE WIH THIS DEMAND. IN CASE OF REFUSAL, TO CONFISCATE THEM IN A COMPULSORY ORDER AND BRING OFFENDERS TO STRICT CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNT. 7. THE PROSECUTOR'S OFFIC, THE INTERIOR MINISTRY, THE KGB AND THE DEFENCE MINISTRY OF THE USSR SHOULD ORGANISE EFFECTIVE INTERACTION OF LAW-ENFORCEMENT BODIES AND THE ARMED FORCES TO ENSURE PROTECTIONOF PUBLIC+ ORDER AND SECURITY OF THE STATE, SOCIETY AND CITIZENS IN ACCORDANCE WITH THEBVVIFBBAW +ON THE LEGNCBYEGIME OF THE ST TE OF EMERGENCY+ AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF E+MERGENCY IN THE USSR. RALLIES, STREET MARCHES, DEMONSTRATIONS AND STRIKES ARE NOT ALLOWED. IN CASE OF NEED, TO INTRODUCE CURFEW, PATROL TERRITORY, CONDUCT EXAMINATION AND ADOPT MEASURES FOR ENHANCNNG THE BORDER AVD CUSTOMS REGIME. TO ESTABLISH CONTROL, AND IN NECESSARY CASES PROTECTION, OVER O MAJOR+ STATE AN ECONOMIC FACILITIES, AND LIFE-SUPPORT SYSTEMS. RESOLUTELY TO VURB THE DISSEMINATION OF INSTIGATORY RUMOURS AND ACTIONS PROVOKING VIOLATITNS OF LAW AND ORDER AND KINDLING OF IMTER-.35#,8: STRIFE, DISOBEDIENCE TO OFFICIALS SECURING OBSERVANCE OF THE STUTE OF EMERGENCY REGULATIONS. MORE MSK 17.52 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA220 Q INF 0529 TASS EE066 E999 EN E999001 +MOSCOW-EMERGENCY + ZZ .URGENT--MOSCOW UNDER STATE OF EMERGENCY. 19/8 TASS 58 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - A STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECLARED IN MOSCOW AS OF TODAY, IN KEEPING WITH A DECREE BY ACTING FEDERAL PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEV. FOLLOWS THE FULL TEXT OF THE DECREE: +IN VIEW OF THE AGGRAVATION OF THE SITUATION IN MOSCOW, CAPITAL OF THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCINCPICBYEPUBLICS, CAUSED BY FAILURES TO FULFIL RESOLUTION NO. Q OF T+HE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR OF AUGUST 19, QOOQN BY ATTEMPTS TO ORGANISE RALLIES, STREET PROCESSIONS AND MARCHES, AND BY INSTANCES OF INCCTEMENT TO UNREST, AS WELL AS IN THE INTEREST OF PROTECTING CITIZENS AND THEIR SECURITY IN ACCORDANCE WIT ARTINT128-00-4-&4-=# 3, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION, I HEREBY RESOLVE: +1. TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE CITY OF MOSCOW AS OF AUGUST 19, QOOQM +2. TO APPOINT COLONEL-GENERAL N.V. KALININ, COMMANDER OF THE MOSCOW M+ILITARY DISTRICT'S FORCES, COMMANDANT OF THE CITY OF MOSCOW WITH THE RIGHTS TO ISSUE MANDATORY ORDERS REGULATING ISSUES OF MAINTAINING THE STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGIME.+ ITEM END + MSK 17.56 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN TCZCKNA198 E INF 0665 TASS CD529 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .STA-OF-EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION--FULL =3. 19/8 TASS 33 8. TO ESTABLISH CONTROL OVER THE MASS MEDIA, ENTRUSTING IT TO AN AGENCY SPECIALLY SET UP UNDER THE STATEWUOMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCYWM 9. BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION AND HEADS OF ORGANISUTIONSPAND ETERPRISES, SHOULD TAKE MEASURES TO I CREASE OGANISATION AND RESTOVE ORDER ANJ DISCIPLINE TO ALL ASPECTS OF PUBLIC LIFE. T+O ENSURE THE NORMAL FUNCTIONING OF ENTERPRISES IN ALL SECTORS OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, THE STRICT FULFILMENT OF MEASURES TO PYESERVE AND RESTORE, FOR THE STABILISATION PERIOD, VERTICAL AND ORIZONTAL TIES BETWEEF SUBJECTS OF ECONOMIC MANAGEMENT THROUGHOUT THE TERRITORY OF THE USSR, AND THE UNFAILWNG ACHIEVEMENT OF PLANNED TIDWETS EGARDNNG PRODUCTION AND SUPPLIES OF RAW AND OTHER MATERIALS AND COOPONENTS. TO ESTABLISH AND MAINTAIN AUSTERITY ARRANGEMENTS CONCERNING THE USE OF MATERIALS, EQUIHMENT+ AND FOREION CURRNCY, AND TO WORK OUT AND IMPLEMENT SPECIFIC MEASURES TO COMBAT MISMANAGEMENT AND THE SQUANDERING OF PUBLIC WEALTH. O TO WAGE A DECISIVE STRUGGLE AGAINST TTS ADOW ECONOMY +AND INEXORABLY ENFORCE MEASURES OF CRIMINAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY IN INSTANCES OF CORRUPTION, THEFT, PROFITEERING, GMODS CONCEALMENT, BUNGLED MANAGEMENT AND OTHER ECONOMIC WRONGDOING. TO CREATE FAVOURABLE CONDITIONS FOR ALL FORMS OF ENTERPRISE THAT COMPLY WITH THE LAWS OF THE USSR TO INCREASE T+HEIR REAL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE COUNTRY'S ECONOMIC POTENTIAL AND MEET VITAL POPULAR NEEDS. 10. TO CONSIDER REGULAR WORK ON STRUCTURES OX AUTHORITY AND ADMINISTRATION INCOMPATIBLE WITH MOONLIGHTING IN ENTREPRENEURIAL CAPACITY. MORE MSK 18.01 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZVNQKNI3 3, 3 3 , 3, 3, 3 3 3 , 3 3 3 3) 3, (.)++ .STATE-OF-EMEROENCY COMMITTEE RESOLUTION -- FULL =4. 19/8 TASS 33 11. THE CABINETOF MINISTERS IS HEREBY INSTRUCTED TO TAKE STOCK OF ALL AVAILABLE RESOURCES OF FOOD AND OTHER ESSENTIALS AND REPORT TO THE PEOPLE WHAT THE COUNTRY HAS AT ITS DISPOSAL, TAKE UNDER STRICT CONTROL THEIR PRESERVATION AND DISTRIBUTION. ANY RESTRICTIONS ESTABLISHED TO PREVENT TRANSPORTATION ACROSS THE USSR TERRITORY OF+ FOODSTUFFS AND CONSUMER GOODS, AS WELL AS MATERIAL RESOURCES FOR THEIR PRODUCTION, SHOULD BE PROCAIMED NULL AND VOID, EXERSISING DILIGENT CONTROLNOVER THE OBSERVANCE OF THIS ORDER. SPECIAL ATTENTION SHOULD BE PAID TO PRIORITY SUPPLIES TO PRE-SCHOOL ESTABLISHMENTS, VORPHANAGES, SCHOOLS, SPECIALIZED SECOMDA Y AND HIGHER EDUCATIONAL ESTABLISHMENTS ANLNHOSPITALS, AS WELL AS PENSIONERS AND DISABLED PERSONS. PROPOSALS SHOULD BE SUBMITTED WITHIN A WEEK FOR STREAMLINIMG, VXREEZING OR REBUCING PRICES+ FOR CERTAIN CATEGORIES OF CONSUMER GOODS AND FOODSTUFFS - FIRST OF ALL THOSE INTENDED FOR CHILDREN - EVERYDAY SERVICES AND PUBLIC CATERING, AS WELL AS RAISING WAGES, PENSIONS AND COMPENSATION +SUMS TO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF CITIZENS. MEASURES SGOULD BE WORKED OUT WITHIN TWO WEEKS TO STREAMLINE THE SIZE OF PAY TO THE LEADERS ATALL LEMELS OF STATEN PUBLIC, COOPERATIVE OR OTHER ESTABLISHMENTS, ORGANISATIONS AND ENTERPRISES. 12. TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE CRITICAL SITUATION IN HARVESTING AND TH+E THREAT OF FAMINE, EXTRAORDINARY MEASURES SHOULD BE TAKEN TO ORGANISE THE PROCUREMENT, STORAGE AND PROCESSING OF FARM PRODUCE. MAXIMUM AID SHOULD BE RENDERED TO AGRICULTURAL WORKERS BY PROVIDING MACHINERY, SPARE PARTS, FUAL AND LUBRICANZS, ETC. ENTERPRISE AND OFFICE WORKERS AND N)9633', STUDENTS AND SERVICEMEN IN NECESSARY NUMBERS SHOULD BE PROMPTLY SENT TO THE COUNTRY TO SAVE THE HARVEST. MORE MSK 18.06 QOAPIAUUCUFNNNN N ZCZCKNA224 Q INF 0543 TASS CE174 E999 EN E999001 +NEWSPAPERS-SUSPENDED + ZZ .URGENT--ALL BUT 9 MOSCOW-BAED NEWSAPERS SUSPENDED. 19/8 TASS 59 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE PKBLICATIOC OF ALL BIT NINE MOSCOW-BASED NEWSPAPERS HAS BEEN SUSPENDED, UNDER THE STATE-OF- EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RSOLUTION NO. WN WHICH WAS ISSUED HERE TODAY. IT SAID: ZIN VIEW OF THE DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN MOSCOW AND FOME OTHER TERRITORIES IN THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICE IS OF AUG+UST 19, QOOQN AND IN CONNECTION WITH VLAUSE 4, PARAGRAPH 14, OF THE USSR LAW 'ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY',THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR ESOLVES: +1. TO TEMPORARILY LIMIT THE LIRT OF PU)8'#3 CENTRAL AND MOSVOW CITY AND REGIONAL SOCIO-POLITQCAL PERIODICALS TO THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPERS: TCUDWN RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA, IZVESTIA, PRAVDA, KRASNAYA ZVEZDA, SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA, MOSKOVSKAYA PRAVDA, LENINSKOYE ZNAMYA. AND SELSKAYA ZHIZN. +2. THE ISSUE OF GESUM+ING THE PUBLICATION OF THE OTHER CENTRAL AND MOSCOW CITY AND REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS AND SOCIO- POLITICAL PERIODICALS WILL BE DECIDED BY A SPECIAL ORGAN MFTHE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY +IN THE USSR.+ ITEM ENDS MSK 18.10 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA227 W INF 0108 TASS CE165 E220 EN E220001 +SOCIETY-RUSSIA + ZZ .RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT TO HOLD EMERGENCY SESSION. 19/8 TASS WYP MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT PRESS CENTRE ON MONDAY SAID THE PRESIDIUM OF THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT HELD A SESSION TODAY. THE SESSION, PRESIDED OVER BY RUSSIAN PARLIAMENTARY LEADER RUSLAN KHASBULATOV, SCHEDULED AN EMERGENCY SESSION OF THE RUSSIAN PARLIAMENT FOR AUGUST 21, QOOQ AT THE HOUSE OF SOVIETS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION IN MOSCOW. ITEM ENDS + MSK 18.11 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA200 E INF 0544 TAUS BD858 E999 EN E999001 +EMERGENCY-RESOLUTION + ZZ .='5-53-OF-EMER3,:6 COMMITTEE RESOLUTION -- FUPL = TM 19/8 TASS 33 13. THE CABINET OF MINISTERS IS HEREBY INSTRUCTED TO WORK OUT, WITHIN A WEEK, A RESOLUTION TO ENSURE TME PROVISION IN 1991 AND 1992 OF PLOTS OF LAND FOR FRUIT AND VEGETABLE-GROWING, MAASURING UV TOO, QT HECTARE, TO EACH AND EVERY CITY DWELLERNW O SO WISHES. 14. THE CABINET OF MINISTERS OF THE USSR SHOULD COMPLETE, WITHIN TWO WEEKS, T+HENDRAWING UP OF PLANS FORNEMERGENCY MEASURES TO BE TAKEN TO PULL THE COUNTRY3S FUEL-AND-POWER COMPLEX OUT OF THE CRISIS AND PREPARE FOR THE WINTER. 15. PRACTICAL MEASURES FOR 1992 SHOULD BE PREPARED ZJAIFNREPORTED TO THE PEOPLE TO RADICALLY IMIROVE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION AND ENSURE THE PROVISION OF HOUSING TO PEOPLE. AITHIN SIX MONTHS, A PRACTICAL PROORAMME SHOULD BE AORKED OUT TO EXPEDITE THE DEVELOPMENT OF STATE, COOPERATIVE AND INDIVIDUAL HOUSE-BUILDING IN THENEXT FIVE HEARS. 16. IT +IS HEREBY MADE INCUMBENT ON TME CENTRAL ANJ LOCAL BODIES MF AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT TO PAY PRIORITY ATTEMTION TO PEOPLESS SOCIAL NEEDS AND PINQOINT AREAS FOR SUBSTANTIAL IMPROVEMENT OF FREE HE+ALTH SERVICES AND PUBLIC ADUCATION. NTEM ENDS MSK 08.15 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA229 Q INF 0536 TASS CE150 E999 EN E999001 +YANAYEV-PRESS WZ ZZ .NEWS CONFERENCE BY USSR ACTING PRESUDENT. 19/8 TASS 61 MOSCOW AUVUST QO TASS - BY TASS CORCESPONDENTS KONETANTIN VOITSEKHOVICH, BORS ZVEREV ANDNYURI SIZOV: THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP'S INTENTION +TO CONTINUE TO PURSUE+ THE COURSE ONNWHICH MIKHAIL GORBACHEV EMBARKED IN 1985, WABLEMPRESSED AT U NEWS VONFERENCE TODAY BY ACTING PRESIDENT OF THA USSR GENNADI YANAYEV. TAKING PART IN THE NEWS CONFERENCE ARE ALSO +FCRST JEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE DEFENCE COUNCIL AT HE USS EWPPRESIDENT OLEG BAKLANOV, SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTER BORISPUGO, CHAIRMAN OF THE USSR PEASANTS UNION VASILI STARODUBTSEV, PRESIDENT OF TME ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENTERPRISES AND FACCLITIES OF INDUSTRY,VONSTRUCTION TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS OF THE USSR A EXANDER TIZYAOV. REGARDING MIKHAIL GORBACHV'S HEALTH, YANAYEV SAID THAT HE IS +VACATIONING AND UNDERGOING TREATMENT IN THE CRIMEA+. +HE GREW VERY TIRED OVER THESE YEARS, AND IT TAKES+ SOME TIME FOR HIS HEALTH TO IMPROVEZN THE ACTING PRESIDENT SAID. HE ALSO EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT +UPON RECOVERING MIKHAIL GORBACHEV WILL RESUME HIS DUTIES+. ITEM ENES N+ MSK 18.18 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN VZCZCKNA211 E INF 0120 TASS DE067 E220 EN E220001 +ISRAEL-ALBANIA 5 ZZ .ALBANIA AND ISRAEL ESTABLISH DCPLOMATIC RELATIONS. 19/8 TASS 53 CAIRO AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENT MIKHAIL KRUTIKHIN: ISRAELI FOREIGN MINISTER DAVIE LEVI AND HIS ALBANAN COUNTERPART MUHAMET KAPLLAMI SIGNED A M MORANDUM ON UNDERSTANDING IN JERUSALEM ON MONDAY, THE MENA NEWS AGENCY REPORTS. THE MSMORANDUM ENVISAGES THE EETABLISHMENT OF BWPLOMATIC RELATIONS BTWEEN THE TWO SATES ANDHE DEVELOPMENT OF ECONOM+IC, SCIENTIXWC. CULTURAL AND OTHER TIES. SITEM ENDS MSK 18.21 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA223 E INF 1561 TASS AE429 E220 EN E220001 +TRADEUNIONS-STAND + EZ .SOVIET TRABE UION OFFICIAL ON UNION TREATY. 19/8 TASS 54 N MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - ZI FOUND MORE QUESTIONS THAN ANSWERS IN THE UNION TREATY SUBMITTED XOR SIGNING TO REPUBICAN HEADS,+ DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OFNTTE SOVIET GENERAL CONKEDERATION OF TRADE UNIONS ALBERT YAKOVLEV TOLD TASS. +WHAT DOES THE VERY NOTION 'THE UION OF SOVIET SOVEREIGN REPUBLICS' MEAN? DOES IT IMPLY THE PARADE OF SOVEREIGNTIESNOF THE NINE REPUBLICS DIRECTLY INV+OLVED IN THE CREATION OF THE TREATY? +ANB, SINCE TMEYARE GRANTED SUPEVWIDE POWERS, WILL IT LEAD TO THE DISINTEGRATION OF THE GREAT STATE INTO 'APPANAGE PRINCIPALITIES'? WILL SUCH A UNION BE INTERNALLY RERONG OR AUTHORITATIVE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SCENE? LET'S CONSIDER THE VITALTY IMPORTANT PROBLEM OF THE TRANSITION TO MARKET RELATIONS. THE TREATY INCLUDES WORDS UBOUT THE NECESSITY OF THE ' INGLE ATL7UNION MARKET'. BUT WILL IT BE POSSIBLE FOR THIS MARKET TO FUNCTION NORMALLY AND WILL IT +BE POSSIBLE TO CREATE A SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE UNDER THE CONDITIONS OF MOUNTING AMBITIONS OF SOME LEADERS OF UNION REPUBLICS? +IT IS QUITE EVIDENT THAT WE ARE COMING BACK TO WHAT WE HAVE RECENTLYN+WANTED TO ESCAPE -- THE CENTRALIZED AND MONOPOLISED ECONOMY. +BUT THE NUMBER OF SUCH CEMTRE WILL INCREASE -- THEY WILL TRANSFER TO REVUBLICS, WHICH WILL WEAKEN THE ECONTMY EVEN MORE. THE UNION TREUTY IN ITS PRESENT EDITION WILL NOT BE ABLE TO CESIST THIS PROVESSLM +IT IS KNOWN, HOWEVER, THAT ANGZY CRISIS SITUATION IN THE ECONOMX PRIMARILY NEGATIVELY TELLS UPON THE WELL-BEING OF WORKING PEOPLE.+ TRADE UOB NS ALSO HAVE MANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE CHAPTER OF THE TREATY THAT DEALS WITH THE BASIS OF SOCIAL POLICY: LABOR CONDITIONS, WAGES, SALARIES AND LABOR PROTECTION, THE EMPLOYMET, SOCIAL INSURANCE AND PENSIONS, THE PROCEDURE OF INCOME INDEXING AND THE SUBSISTENCE MINIMUM. YAKOVLEV NOTEE THAT THE SESSION OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USUR MADE CRITICAL REMAKS ABOUT THE DRAFT TREATY, BU+T THEY WERE NOT TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT. N+ACTUALLY, THEY DID NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE WILL OF THE HIGHEST POWER BODY OF THE STATE, AS WELL AS THE RESULTS OF THE REFERENDUM THAT ACCUMULATED PEOPLE'S STRIVING FOR THE SINGLE AND POWERFUL UNION.+ REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ALL-UNION TRADE UNION CENTRE, WHICH +IS NOT INDIFFERENT TOWARDS THE DESTINY OF ITS PROPERTS IN THE RENOVATED UNION+, WERE NOT INVOLVED IN THE ELABORATION OF THE TREATY AS WELL. +WENARE NOT SURE THAT THE TREATY IN ITS PRESENT EDI+TION WILL BE UNDERSTOOD AND INTERPRETED CORRECTLY. +THAT IS WHY THE COUNCIL OF THE GENERAL TRADE UNION CONFEDERATION SUGGESTS TO CREATE A INDEPENDENT EXPERT+ GROUP ON THE ESTIMAION OF SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC ONSEQUENCES OF THE UNION TREATY AND ITS INFLUENCE ON THE TRADE UNION AND WORKERS' MOVEMENT,+ YAKOVLEV SAD IN CONCLUSION. O ITEM ENDS MSK 18.29 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZC RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY MSK 18.40 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN M ZCZCKNA234 W INF 0130 TASS CE193 E99. EN E99=01 +EMERGENY-YELTSIN + ZZ A .URGENT--RUSSIAN PRESIDENT YELTSIN CALLS FOR GENERAL STRIKE. 19/8 TASS 64 V MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - RUSSIAN PRESIDENT BORIS XELTSIN, CRITICAL OF THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP'S EMERGENCY MEASURES TO RESTORE ORDER TO THE COUNTRY, CALLED FOR AN OPEN-ENDED STRIKE IN PROTESTGM AN ADDRESS, SIGNED BY HIM AND OTHER RUSSIAN LEADERS AND READ OUT AT A NEWS CONFURENCE HERE TODAY, BRANDED THE STATE-OF- EMERGENCY COMMITTAE AS +ILL+EAL5. Z ICXOLRUSSIAN LEADERS URGED AN EMERGENCY FEDERAL CONGRESS AND +A GENERAL AND OPEN-ENDED STRIKE+9 ITEM ZJJIIFN MSK 18.43 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZC T RPT RPT RPT KNA220 Q INF 0529 TASS EE066 RP05 EN E999001 +MOSCOW-EMERGENCY + ZZ .URGENT--MOSCOW UNDER STATE OF EMERGENCY. 19/8 TASS 58 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - A STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN DECL RED IN MOSCOW AS OF TODAY, IN KEEPING WITH A DECREE BY ACTING FEDERAL PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEV. FOLLOWS THE FULL TEXT OF THE ECREE: +IN VIEI OF THE AGGRAVATITN OF THE SITUATION IN MOSCOW,' CAPITAL OF THE UNITN OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS, CAUSED BY FAILURES TO FULFIL RESOLUTION NO. Q OF T+HE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR OF AUGUST 19, QOOQN BY ATTEMPTS TO ORGANISE RALLIES, STREET PROCESSIONS AND MARCHES, AND BY INSTANCES OF INCITEMENT TO UNREST, AS WELL AS IN THE INTEREST OF PROTECTING CITIZENS AND THEIR SECURITY IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 127, PARAGRAPH 3, OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION, I HEREBY RESOLVE: +1. TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE CITY OF MOSCOW AS OF AUGUST 19, QOOQM +2. TO APPOINT COLONEL-GENERAL N.V. KALININ, COMMANDER OF THE MOSCOW M5ILITARY DISTRICT'S FORCES, COMMANDANT OF THE CITY OF MOSCOW WITH THE RIGHTS TO ISSUE MANDATORY ORDERS REGULATING ISSUES OF MAINTAINING THE STATE-OF-EMERGENCY REGIME.+ ITEM ENDS + MXK 18.56 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN V ZCZC RPT RPT RPT KNA224 Q INF 0543 TASS CE174 RP05 EN E999001 +NEWSPAPERS-SUSPENDED + ZZ .URGENT--ALL BUT 9 MOSCOW-BASED NEWSPAPERS SUSPENDED. 19/8 TASS 59 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE PUBLICATION OF ALL BUT NINE MOSCOW-BASED NEWSPAVERS HAS BEEN SUSPENDED, UNDER THE STATE-OF7 EMERGENCY COMMITTEE'S RESOLUTION NO9 WN WHICH WAS ISSUED HERE VTODAY. IT SAID: ZIN VIEW OF THE DECLARATION OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY IIN MOSCOW AND SOME OTHER TERRITORIES IN THE UNION OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS AS OF AUG+UST 19, QOOQN AND IN CONNECTION WITH CLAUSE 4, PARAGRAPH 14, OF THE USSR LAW 'ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF A STATE OF EMERGENCY', THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR RESOLVES: +1. TO TEMPORARILY LIMIT THE LIST OF PUBLISHED CENTRAL AND MOSCOW CITY AND REGIONAL SOCIO-POLITICAL PERIODICALS TO THE FOLLOWING NEWSPAPERS: TRUD, RABOCHAYA TRIBUNA, IZVESTIA, PRAVDA, KRASNAYA ZVEZDA, SOVETSKAYA ROSSIYA, MOSKOVSKAYA PRAVDA, LENINSKOYE ZNAMYA, AND SELSKAYA ZHIZN. +2. THE ISSUE OF RESUM+ING THE PUBLICATION OF THE OTHER CENTRAL AND MOSCOW CITY AND REGIONAL NEWSPAPERS AND SOCIO- POLITICAL PERIODICALS WILL BE DECIDED BY A SPECIAL ORGAN OF THEEWPSTATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY +IN THE USSR.+ V ITEM ENDS MSK 19.10 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA24# Q INF 0798 TASS EE368 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETYLAREACTION + ZZ .SITUATION IN USSR -- REACTION IN REPUBLICS. O 19/8 TASS 66 ALMA ATA AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENT VLADIMIR AKIMOV: KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV CALLED TODAY ON ALL CITIZENS, REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES POPULATING THE REPUBLIC, TO REMAIN CALM AND RESERVED. +IT IS ESPECIALLYNEEDED NOW SINCE ANY EMOTIONAL AND UNTHOUGHT ACTION OF ANY OF US CAN BECOME THE BETINNING OF THE MOS+T GRAVE SOCIAL UPHEAVALS. +THAT IS WHY ALL OF US SHOULD, ON A FULL SCALE, LEAN ON THE CENTURIES-OLD EXPERIENCE OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLES, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEENHE BA IS OF UNITY AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN THE REPUBLIC,+ THE PRESIDENT SAID. NAZARBAYEV CALLED ON REPUBLICAN LABOR COLLECTIVES +TO KEEP UP HIGH CONSCIOUS S AND DIKCIPLINE AND DO NOT ALLOW ANY CHAOS IN THE ECONOMY.+ HE NOTED THE SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESTING ON FARMERS, IN WHOSE HANDS LAYS THE DESTINY OF THE HARVEST AN+D FOOD RESOURCES. ADDRESSING REPRESENTATIVES OFMULL POLITICAS RCES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE REPUBLIC, THE KAZAKH PRESIDENT SAID THAT +IN THE CURRENT SITUATION IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO DISMISS+ ALL MOMENTARY DIFFERENCES AND, BASING ON THE COMMON SENSE AND THE SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE THE PEOPLE, DO NOT ALLOW ANY CONFRONTATION.+ IN HIS ADDRESS TO PERSONNEL OF FORMATIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES, THE STATE SECURITY COMMITTEE AND THE INTERIOR MINISTRY LOCATED ON KAZAKH TERRITORY, THE PRESIDENT EXP+RESSED HIS ASSURANCE THAT THEY +WILL BE FAITHFUL TO CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS, THE RESPECT TO RIGHTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND LOCAL POWER BODIES.+ THE PRESIDENT ESPECVALLY STRESSED THAT THE STATE OF EMERGNCY IS NOT INTRODUCED ON KAZAKH TERRITORY. ALL AUTHORITY BELONGS TO SOVIET BODIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ADOPTED DECLARATION ON THE STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KAZAKH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC. IN CONCLUSION, THE PRESIDENT CONFIRMED HIS ALHERENCE TO TQNBH POLICY OF CONSOLIDATION OF +THE REPUBLIC'S SOVEREIGNTY AND PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY, THE UNITY OF THE USSR, ANB SAID ALOUT HIS DETERMINATION TO FULFIL THE REFORMS THAT HAVE BEGUN. PHE ALSO EXPRE EED HIS PROFOUND ASSURANCE THAT THE KAZAKH PEOPLE WILL SHOW HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS, VIGILANCE AND COHESION. ITEM ENDS MSK 19.16 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZC RPT RPT RPT KNA229 Q INF 0536 TASS CE150 RP05 EN E999001 +YANAYEV-PRESS + ZZ .NEWS CONFERENCE BY USSR ACTING PRESIDENT. 19/8 TASS 61 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENTS KONSTANTIN VOITSEKHOVICH, BORIS ZVEREV AND YURI SIZOV: THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP'S INTENTION +TO CONTINUENTO PURSUE+ THE COURSE ON WHICH MIKHAIL GORBACHEV EMBARKED IN 1985, WAS EXPRESSED AT A NEWS CONFERENCE TODAY BY ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE USSR GENNADI YANAYEV. TAKING PART IN THE NEWS CONFERENCE ARE ALSO +FIRST DEPUTY CHAIRMAN OF THE DEFENCE COUNCIL AT THE USSR PRESIDENT OLEG BAKLANOV, SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTER BORIS PUGO, CHAIRMAN OD T I R PEASANTS UNION VASILI STARODUBTSEV, PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF STATE ENTERPRISES AND FACILITIES OF INDUSTRY, CONSTRUCTION, TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS OF THE USSR ALEXANDER TIZYAKOV. REGARDING MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S HEALTH, YANAYV SAID THAT HE IS +VACATIONING AND UNDERGOING TREATMNT IN THE CRIMEAZM +HE GRE VERY TIRED OVER TH?&)3-4', AND IT TAKES+ SOME TIME FOR HIS HEALTH TO IMPROVE+, THE ACTING PRESIDENT SAID. HE ALSO EXPRESSED THE HOPE THAT +UPON RECOVERING MIKHAIL GORBACHEV W LL RESUME HIS DUTIES+. ITEM ENDS + MSK 19.20 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNAGWRA A VINF 0219 TASS CE317,3999 EN E999001 +EMERGEMY-GEORGIA + ZZ .URGENT--GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES URGE CALM AND ORDER. 19/8 TASS 70 TBILISI AUGUST 19 TASS - THE GEORGIAN PRESIDENT, PARLIAMENTARY LEADERS AND GOVERNMENT URGED PEOPLE IN THAT TRANSCAUCASIAN REPUBLIC +TO MAINTAIN CALM AND OBSERVE ORDER AND D SCIPLINE+ IN THE WAKE OH ANNOUNCED FORMATION OF THE FEDERAL COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY. SAKINFORM NEWS AGENCY REPORTS THAT IN THEIR STATEMENT, THE GEORGIAN AU+THORITIES CALLED ON CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNING COUNCILS AND MASSAND OLITICAL ORGANISATIONS IN GEORGIA UND AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICS +TO TAKE ACCOUNT OF THE MEED FOR CONCERTED ACTION+. +WE URGE EVERYONE TO STAY ON THEIR JOBS, PERFORM THEIR DUTIES, WITHOUT YIELDING TO PROVOCATION OR TAKING UNAUTHORISED ACTION, AND OBEY ORDINANCES BY GEORG AN UTHORITIES,+ THE STATEMENT SAID. IT SAID THIS IS THE ONLY WAY CIVIL PEACE AND POLITICAL STABILITY CAN BE ENSURED IN THE REPUBLIC. ITEM ENDS MSK 19.24 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZC RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY RYHYWJUFFYYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY MSK 19.25 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA243 W INF 0658TASS DE610 E999 EN E999001 +DEFENCE-STATEMENT + ZZ .ALL-UNION VETERAN COUNCIL -- ADDRESS. 19/8 TASS 63 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE ALL-UNION COUNCIL OF VETERANS OF WAR, LABOR AND THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES AOD THE SOVIET WAR VETERAN COMMITTEE ADDRESSED ALL VETERANS OF THE SOVIET UNION. THE ADDRESS SAYS THE FOLLOWING: THE ALL-UNION VETERAN COUNCIL AND THE SOVIET WAR VETERAN COMMITTEE ENTIRELY SUPPORT THECREATION OF THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMER+GENCY IN THE USSR AND THE DECLARATION OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME SOVIET AREAS. IN THE CURRENT EXTREMELY GRAVE CRISIS SITUATION, THIS MEASURE IS NOT ONLY NECESSARY BUT ABSOLUTELY JUSTIFIED AND INEVITABLE. WE EXPRESS THE ASSURANCE THAT IT WILL BE SUPPORTED BY A H VETERANS OF WAR, LABOR AND THE SOVIET ARMED FORCES. WE CALL ON CCBETERANS, ALL PATRIOTS WHO CARE ABOUT THE DESTIY OF OUR MOTHERLAND TO UNDERSTAND ONE'S CIVIC DUTY AND SHOW RESPONSIBILITY, DISCIPLINE AND FORTITUDE IN THIS DEC+ISIVE MOMENT OF THE STATE'S HISTORY. OUR DUTBRIICVLRENDER COMPREHENSIVE PRACTICAL HELP IN THE IMPLEMENTATION OF MEASURES TAKEN BY THE COUNTRY'S LEADERS TO SAVE THE SOCIALIST MOTHERLAND, STABILI+ZE THE POLITICAL SITUATION, PREVENT THE ECONOMIC CRISIS AND PROVIDE FOR THE SAFETY AND WELL- BEING OF EVERY SOVIET CITIZEN. OUR LIFE EXPERIENCE TAUGHT US THAT ONLY A SINGLE AND STRONG STATE AND FRIENDSHIP OF PEOPLES ARE ABLE TO PROVIDE FOR THE INTACESTBLOF EVERY SOVIET PERSON AND DEFEND US IN THE FAC+E OF COMINT HUNGER AND REIGN OF LAWLESSNESS. TODAY WE CALL ON THE VETERANS TO DO EVERYTHING THEY CAN TO RESTORE THE GREATNESS OF THE NATION, THE HAPPINESS AND FLOURISHING OF OUR PEOPLES. ITEM ENDS Y MSK 19.31 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZC RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRS RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY MSK 19.40 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA247 E INF 0700 TASS BE474 E999 EN E999001 +YANAYEV--NEWSCONFERENCE + ZZ .URGENT--YANAYEV DENIES EMERGENCY MEASURES ARE STATE COUP. (TWO TAKES) 19/8 TASS 72 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENTS KONSTANTIN VOITSEKHOVICH, BORIS ZVEREV AND YURI SIZOV: THE STATE-OF-EMERGENCY MOMMITTEE IS GOING TO ASK PARLIAMENT, WHICH OPENS A SPECIAL SESSION ON AUGUST 26, TO CONFIRM ITS POWERS TO IMPOSE A STATE OF EMERGENCY, ACTING SOVIET PRESIDENT GENNADY YANAYEV TOLD A NEWS C+ONFERENCE HERE TODAY. ASKED ABOUT THE SUSPENDERLPUBLICATION OF SEVERAL SOVIET DAILIES, HE SAID THAT STATE-OF-EMERGENCY CONDITIONS REQUIRE THE RE-REGISTRATION OF SOME NEWS OUTLETS. HE STRESSED, HOWEVER, THAT WHAT HE MEANS IS +NOT A FORECLOSURE BUT A RE-REGISTRATION+. +SOME MASS MEDIA ARE ALSO TO BLAME FOR THE CHAOS THAT THE COUNTRY HAS BEEN PLUNGED IN,+ YANAYEV SAID. HE ADDED, HOWEVER, THAT THE AUTHORITIES WILL TRY NOT TO DRAG OUT THE RE-REGISTRATION PROCESS. HE DISAGREED WHEN ONE REPORT+ER CLAIMED THAT +A COUP D'ETAT TOOK PLACE LAST NIGHT+. YANAYEV EXPLAINED THAT THE STATE-OF- EMERGENCY COMMITTEE RELIES ON CONSTITUTIONAL PROVISIONS AND THAT ME BELIEVES PARLIAMENT WILL CONFIRM THE DEC+ISIONS TAKEN. HE SAID ALSO THAT +COMPARISONS OF TODAY'S EVENTS WITH THOSE IN 1917 AND 1964 DO NOT APPEAR CORRECT TO ME+. ZANY ANALOGIES HERE ARE SIMPLY DANGEROUS,+ HE ADDED. COMMENTING ON MIKHAIL GORBACHEV'S STATE OF HEALTH, YANAYEV SAID THAT A RELEVANT MEDICAL CONCLUSION WILL BE MADE PUBLIC +IN+ ITS TIME+. DISAGREEING THUT PRESIDENT GORBACHEV WAS DEPOSED, HE EMPHASISED THAT +WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THE PRESIDENT'S TEMPORARY INABILITY, OWING TO HIS STATE OF HEALTH, TO PERFORM HIS DUTIES+. YANAYEV REITERATED THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP'S INTENTION TO HONOUR OBLIGATIONS ASSUMED BY THE USSR IN FOREIGN POLICY, INCLUDING THE AGREED SCHEDULE OF THE SOVIET TROOP PULL-OUT FROM GERMANY. 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RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY DE REB-24/RRQ-20/RIF-38/RNK-33 DE REB-24/RRQ-20/RIF-38/RNK-33 TASS RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY DE REB-24RRQ-20/RIF-38/RNK-33 DE REB-24/RRQ-20/RIF-38/RNK-33 TASS RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY DE REB-24/RRQ-20/RIF-38/RNK-33 DE REB-24/RRQ-20/RIF-38/RNK-33 TASS RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY YRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYVY MSK 20.29 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZC RPT RPT RPT KNA240 Q INF 0798 TASS EE368 RP05 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-REACTION + ZZ .SITUATION IN USSR -- REACTION IN REPUBLICS. 19/8 TASS 66 ALMA ATA AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENT VLADIMIR AKIMOV: KAZAKH PRESIDENT NURSULTAN NAZARBAYEV CALLED TODAY ON ALL CITIZENS, REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL NATIONS AND NATIONALITIES POPULATING THE REPUBLIC, TO REMAIN CALM AND RESERVED. +IT IS ESPECIALLY NEEDED NOW SINCE ANY EMOTIONAL AND UNTHOUGHT ACTION OF ANY OF US CAN BECOME THE BEGINNING OF THE MOS+T GRAVE SOCIAL UPHEAVALS. +THAT IS WHY ALL OF US SHOULD, ON A FULL SCALE, LEAN ON TME CENTURIES-OLD EXPERIENCE OF FRIENDSHIP BETWEEN PEOPLES, WHICH HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE BASIS OF UNITY AND MUTUAL UNDERSTANDING IN THE REPUBLIC,+ THE PRESIDENT SAID. NAZARBAYEV CALLED ON REPUBLICAN LABOR COLLECTIVES +TO KEEP UP HIGH CONSCIOUSNESS AND DISCIPLINE AND DO NOT ALLOW ANY CHAOS IN THE ECONOMY.+ ME NOTED THE SPECIAL RESPONSIBILITY RESTING ON FARMERS, INN WHOSE HANDS LAYS THE DESTINY OF THE HARVEST AN+D FOOD RESOURCES. ADDRESSING REPRESENTATIVES OF ALL POLITICAL FORCES AND MOVEMENTS OF THE REPUBLIC, THE KAZAKH PRESIDENT SAID THAT +IN THE CURRENT SITUATION IT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO DISMISS+ ALL MOMENTARY DIFFERENCES AND, BASING ON THE COMMON SENSE AND THE SEMSE OF RESPONSIBILITY BEFORE THE PEOPLE, DO NOT ALLOW ANY CONFRONTATION.+ IN HIS ADDRESS TO PERSONNEL OF FORMATIONS OF THE ARMED FORCES, THE STATE SECURITY COMMITTEE AND THE INTERIOG MINISTRY LOCATED ON KAZAKH TERRITORY, THE PRESIDENT EXP+RESSED HIS ASSURANCE THAT THEY +WILL BE FAITHFUL TO CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS, THE RESPECT TO RIGHTS OF AN INDIVIDUAL AND LOCAL POWER BODIES.+ THE PRESIDENT ESPECIALLY STRESSED THAT THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IS NOT INTRODUCED ON KAZAKH TERRITORY. ALL AUTHORITY BELONGS TO SOVIET BODIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ADOPTED DECLARATION ON THE STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE KAZAKH SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC. IN CONCLUSION, THE PRESIDENT CONFIRMED HIS ADHERENCE TO THE POLICY OF CONSOLIDATION OF +THE REPUBLIC'S SOVEREIGNTY AND PRINCIPLES OF DEMOCRACY, THE UNITY OF THE USSR, AND SAID ABOUT HIS DETERMINATION TO FULFIL THE REFORMS THAT HAVE BEGUN. HE ALSO EXPRESSED HIS PROFOUND ASSURANCE THAT THE KAZAKH PEOPLE WILL SHOW HIGH CONSCIOUSCESS, VIGILANCE AND COHESION. ITEM ENDS MSK 20.36 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA249 W INF 1560 TASS DE741 E999 EN E999001 +YANAYEV-PRESS + ZZ .NEWS CONFERENCE BY GENNADI YANAYEV-SUMMARY=1. TWO TAKES 19/8 TASS 69 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENTS KONSTANTIN VOITSEKHOVICH, BORIS ZVEREV AND YURI SIZOV: ACTING PRESIDENT OF THE USSR, GENNADI YANAYEV TOLD A NEWS CONFERENCE HERE TODAY THAT THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY OF THE USSR IS DETERMINED +TO TAKE MOST SERIOUS MEASURES TO OVERCOME THE CRISIS OF THE STATE AND S+OCIETY AS SOON AS POSSIBLE+. HE SAID THAT THE PRESENT MOMENT +IS IMPORTANT FOR THE DESTINIES OF THE SOVIET UNIONAND THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IN THE WORLD+. YANAYEV SAI THAT BY TAKING THIS ROAD OF PROFOUND REFORMS AND COVERING CONSIDERABLE STRETCH IN THIS DIRECTION THE USSR +HAS NOW FACED PROFOUND CRISIS WHOSE FURTHER EVELOPMENT CAN CALL IN QUESTION THE VERY COURSE OF REFORMS AND LEAD TO SERIOUS CATACLYSMS IN INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS+. YANAYEV SAID THAT A SHARP FALL OFF OF PRODUCTION IN +THE COUNTRY WHICH IS SO FAR NOT CONPENSATED FOR BY ALTERNATIVE INDUSTRIAL AND AGRICULTURAL STRUCTURES CREATES A REAT THREAT TO THE FURTHER EXISTENCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF PEOPLES OF THE USSR. HE SA+ID THAT THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY GOT OUT OK CONTROL AND THERE ARE MULTIPLE AUTHORITIES. ZALL THIS CANNOT BUT CAUSE WIDE-SPREAD DISSATISFACTION OF THE POPULATION+, YANAYEV SAID. HE SAID THAT THERE IS A REAL THREAT OF THE COUNTRY'S DISINTEGRATION AND OF THE DISARRAY OF THE SINGLE ECONOMIC SPACE, OF THE+ SINGLE SPACE OF CIVIL RIGHTS, UNITED DEFENCE AND UNIFIED FOREIGN POLICY. NOTING THAT BLOOD IS SPILT IN MANY DISTRICTS OF THE COUNTRY AS A RESULT OF ETHNIC CLASHES, YANAYEV SAID THAT +DISINTEGRATION OF THE USSR WOULD HAVE GRAVE INTERNAL AND INTERNATIONAL CONSEQUENCES+. ZIN THESE CONDITIONS WE HAVE NO CHOICE. WE MUST TAKE DECISIVE MEASURES TO ARREST THE COUNTRY'S SLIDING TO CATASROPHY+. +WE DECLARE FOR GENUINE DEMOCRATIC PROCESSES, FOR A CONSISTENT POLICY OF REFORMS LEADING TO A RENEWAL OF +OUR MOTHERLAND, TO ITS ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL FLOURISHING+, YANAYEV SAID. HE NOTED THAT +THE COUNTRY'S DEVELOPMENT MUST NOT BE BASED ON THE EROSION OF THE POPULATION'S LIVING STANDARDS+ AND THAT +A CONSTANT INCREASE OF THE WELL-BEING OF ALL CITIZENF WI L BECOME NORM IN A SOUND SOCIETY+. N YANAYEV DECLARED THAT THE STATE OF EMERGENCY COMMITTEE, CONTINUING TO CARE FOR THE STRENGTHENING OF THE PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS INTENDS TO CONCENTRATE THE ATTENTION ON THE PROTECTION OF THE INTERESTS OF BROAD S+ECTIONS OF THE POPULATIONS, OF ALL THOSE WHO ARE THREATENED MOST OF ALL BY INFLATION, DISORGANISATION OF PRODUCTION, CORRUPTION AND CRIME. YANAYEV SAID THAT +DEVELOPING THE MULTIMODE NATIONAL ECONOMY, THE STATE OF EMERGENCY COMMITTEE WILL ALSO BE SUPPORTING PRIVATE ENTERPRISE GIVING IT THE NECESSARY OPPORTUNITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT OF PRODUCTION AND SERVICES. MOR MSK 20.44 QOAPIAQOOUNNNN ZCZCKNA250 W INF 0208 TASS CE570 E220 EN E220001 +SITUATION-KARABAKH + ZZ .NEGOTIATIONS ON HOSTAGE LIBERATION END IN NAGORNO-KARABAKH. 19/8 TASS 75 STEPANAKERT AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENT VADIM BYRKIN: AN AGREEMENT HAS BEEN REACHED ON THE LIBERATION OF ALL THE 40 SOLDIERS OF THE SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTRY FORMATIONS, WHO WERE TAKEN HOSTAGE FIVENDAYS AGO IN THE ARMENIAN VILLAGE OF ATERK OF THE MARDAKERT REGION OF THE NAGORNO-KARABAKH. THE ARMENIAN SIDE GUARANTEES THE LIBERATION O+F 12 SOLDIERS TODAY BY 20:00 MOSCOW TIME. THE REST WILL BE FREED DURING THIS NIGHT, DEPUTY HEAD OF THE HEADQUARTERS OF THE INTERIOR TROOPS OF THE SOVIET INTERIOR MINISTRY MAJOR-GENERAL VALERY STARIKOV TOLD TASS. THUS, THE FOUR-DAY-LONG NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE PARTICIPATION OF THE MILITARY AND PEOPLE' DEPUTIES OF T USSR, RUSSIA AND ARMENIA ON THE PEACEFUL SETTLEMENT OF THE HOSTAGE PROBLEM HAVE ENDED SUCCESSFULLY. ITEM ENDS MSK 20.48 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA252 W INF 0480 TASS AE828 E999 EN E999001 +YANAYEV-PRESS + ZZ .NEWS CONFERENCE BY GENNADI YANAYEV-SUMMARY=2. 19/8 TASS 69 THE USSR WILL BE UNSWERVINGLY OBSERVING ALL THE OBLIGATIONS ASSUMED, THE ACTING PRESIDENT SAID. ZWE WISH TO LIVE IN PEACE AND FRIENDSHIP WITH EVERYONE, BUT WE FIRMLY DECLARE THAT NO ONE WILL EVER BE ALLOWED TO ENCROACH ON OUR SOVEREIGNTY, INDEPENDENCE AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY+, HE SAID. ZANY ATTEMPTS TO SPEAK WITH OUR COUNTRY IN THE LANGUAGE OF DIKTAT, ZNO MATTER WHO MAY ATTEMPT THIS, WILL BE DECISIVELY DISRUPTED+. YANAYEV DECLARED THE INTENTION TO RESTORE LAW AND ORDER, TO PUT AN END TO BLOODLETTINGGN TO WAGE A MERCILESS WAR ON CRIME, ZTO ERADICATE DISGRACEFUL PHENOMENA DISCREDITING SOCIETY AND INSULTING SOVIET CITIZENS+. +THE SOLUTION OF THE FOOD AND HOUSING PROBLEMS WILL BE OUR PRIORITY TASKS+, YANAYEV SAID. HE PROCLAIMED THE INTENTION TO CONDUCT A BROAD COUNTRY-WIDE DISCUSSION OF THE DRAFT NEW UNION TREATY, AND SAID THAT THE FORM OF D+ISCUSSION IS YET TO BE ESTABLISHED. ITEM ENDS + MSK 20.50 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA255 W INF 0813 TASS BE542 E999 EN E999001 +YANAYEV-NEWSCONFERENCE + ZZ .URGENT--YANAYEV DENIES EMERGENCY MEASURES ARE STATE COUP =2. 19/8 TASS 72 YANAQEV ASSERTED THAT THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP HAS A PROGRAV OF ACTION TO DEFUSE ETHNIC TENSION. ZWE HAVE MOST SPECIFIC PLANS FORN A SETTLEMENT BETWEEN ARMENIA AND AZERBAIJAN,+ HE SAID. ZWE ALSO HAVE MOST SPECIFIC PROPOSALS FOR SETTLING OTHER ETHNIC PROBLEMS.+ YANAYEV SAID THAT ETHNIC PROBLEMS ARE AMONG THOSE THE COUNTRY HAS TO +TACKLE AS A PRIORITY. HE REVEALEDNTH T THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE CONTACTED +PRACTICALLY MOST LEADERS OF UNION REPUBLICS+ AND THE LEADERS OF AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICS IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. ZWE RECEIVED SUPPORT FROM BOTH AUTONOMOU ENTITIES AND THE A'9)753 MAJOVITY OF REPUBLICAN LEADERS FOR OUR INTENTION TO RESTORE ORDER TO THE COUNTRY,+ YANAYEV SAID. ASKED ABOUT A POSSIBLE NEWS CONFERENCE BY GORBACHEV, HE SAID THAT AS SOON AS GORBACHEV'S HEALTH PERMITS IT, ZHE WILL BE GLAD TO MEET THE PRESS+.+ YANAYEV SAID THAT GORBACHEV +IS COMPLETELY SAFE AND NOTHING THREATENS HIM+. ZI THINK THAT MY FRIEND, PRESIDENT GORBACHEV, WILL GET BACK INTO THE RANKS AND WE SHALL BE ABLE TO WORK AGAIN T+ OGETHER,+ HE SAID. YANAYEV SAID HE DOESN'T BELIEVE THERE IS ANY NEED TO DECLARE A STATE OF EMERGENCY THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. HE EXPLAINED THAT IN SOME REGIONS THERE ARE MOUNTAINS OF PROBLEMS THAT ARE VERY HARD TO RESOLVE WITHOUT A STATE OF EMERGENCY. AT THE SAME TIME, FOR EXAMPLE, IN KAZAKHSTAN OR UZBEKIST+AN THERE IS NO NEED TO IMPOSE A STATE OF EMERGENCY, BECAUSE TH SITUATION THERE IS STABLE ENOUGH, HE SAID. YANAYEV DESCRIBED ACTIONS BY THE RUSSIAN REPUBLIC'S LEADERS AS +VERY DANGEROUS POLICIES+. SPEAKING OF THE ATTITUDE TO REPUBLICS UNWILLING OR UNPREPARED TO SIGN A UNION TREATY NOW, HE SAID THAT THE NATIONAL LEADERSHIP WILL CONTINUE TO +RESPECT THE EXPRESSION OF WILL BY PEOPLEFZM ASKED ABOUT HOW LONG HE WILL REMAIN ACTING PRESIDENT, YANAYEV SAID THAT +AS THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY +NORMALISES, WE SHALL CALL A DIRECT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION+. HE ALSO EXPRESSED THE DESIRE +TO DO EVERYTHING LEST IT BE NECESSARY TO RECOU SE TO FORCE AGAINST THE CIVILIAN POPULATION+. +WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING TO PREVENT ANY EXCESSES,+ YANAYEV STRESSED. HE INSISTED THAT THE EMERGENCY MEASURES +ARE NOT AT ALL VONNECTED WITH ANY OFFENSIVE ON HUMAN RIGHTS+. ITEM ENDS MSK 20.58 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA258 E INF 0615 TASS DE673 E220EN E220001 +RLATION -MELP + ZZ .JAPAN CHARITY ORGANISATION HELPS CHERNOBYL VICTIMS. 19/8 TASS 62 KIEV AUGUST 19 TASS - BY UKRINFORM-TASS CORRESPONDENT ADAM YANUSHEVSKY: THE JAPANESE CHUBU-CHERNOBYL CHARITY ORGANISATION MAS DONATD ONE MILLION YENS TO THE RECENTLY KET UP RESETTLEMENT FKND IN ZHITOMIR, THE NORTH-WEST OF THE UKRAINE. THE MONEY WILL BE USED TO HELP FAMILIES WITH MANY CHILDREN RESETTLING FROM THE CHERNOBYL-STRICKEN AREAS. IN ADDITION TO THIS DO+NATION, THEORGANISATION HAS SENT MEDICINES, DISPSABLE SYRINGES, ULTRA-SONIC DIAGNOSIS INSTALLATIONS AND MODERN BLOOD ANALYZERS TO BE DISTRIBUTED AMONG LOCAL MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENTS. REPRESENTATIVE OF CHUBU-CHERNOBYL TAKASHI KOMAKI SWID THAT THE ORGANISATION'S DELEGATION CAME TO THE UKRAINE TO LEARN BETTER THE NEEDS OF VEOPLE LIVING IN CHERNOBYL-AFFECTED AREAS. THEY WILL VISIT HOSPITALS AND FAMILIES OF THE RESETTLERS TO TALK WITHPEOPLE AND EXPAND THE SCALE OF THEIR HELP. A PROGRAM OF RE+SETTLING PEOPLE TO ECOLOGICALLY CLEAN LANDS IS NOW UNDERWAY IN THE ZHITOMIR REGION, AS WELL AS IN OTHER UKRAINIAN AREAS. NEW VILLAGES ARE BE NG BUILT AND APARTMENTS IN TOWNS ARE ALLOCATED AT THE EXPE+NSE OF THE STATE. ON THE INITIATIVE OF PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS, SEVERAL FUNDS HAVE BEEN CREATED TO RENDER ASSISTANCE TO FAMILIES IN PURCHASING HOUSES AND STARTING A HOME OF THEIR OWN. FOREIGN CHARITY ORGANISATIONS PARTICIPATE IN THE CREATION OF THESE FUNDS AS WELL. ITEM ENDS MSK 21.01 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA262 W INF 0139 TASS DA998 E220 EN E220001 +SOCIETY-REACTION + ZZ .SITUATION IN THE USSR -- REACTION IN REPUBLICS. N 19/8 TASS 74 V YEREVAN AUGUST 19 TASS - A MEETING OF HEADS OF POLITICAL PARTIES AND MASS MEDIA OF ARMENIA HAS BEEN HELD AT THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ARMENIAN SUPREME SOVIET TO DISCUSS THE SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY. SPEAKING AT THE MEETING, CHAIRMAN OF THE ARMENIAN SUPREME SOVIET LEVON TER-PETROSYAN TOLD THOSE PRESENT ABOUT THE RESULTS OF THE MEETING OF THE PRESIDIUM OF THE ARMENIA+N KUPREME SOVIET HELD THIS MORNING, WHICH ADOPTED AN ADDRESS TO REPUBLICAN RESIDENTS. IT IS EXCLUSIVELY IMPORTANT NOW FOR PARTIES, PUBLIC AND POLITICAL ORGANISATIONS, ALL POLITICAL FORCES ACTING IN THE REPUBLIC, AS WELL AS NEWSPAPERS, RADIO, TELEVISION AND OTHER MASS MEDIA TO SHOW MAXIMUM RESTRAINT AND CAUTION AND AVOID IMPRUDENT AND HASTY ESTIMATIONS, CONCLUSIONS AND COMMENTS, THE ARMENIAN LEADER STRESSED. O PROCEEDING FROM THE SUPREME INTERESTS OF THE ARMENIA PEOPLE, THE TOP-PRIORITY TASK+ OJLTHE PUBLIC, ALL THE POPULATION AND REPUBLICAN POWER BODIES SHOULD BE A STRICT OBSERVANCE OF LAW, DISCIPLINE, LABOR RHYTHM AND THE REFUSAL FROM RALLIES AND MANIFESTATIONS, NOTED SPEAKERS AT THE ME+ETING. THE ARMENIAN LEADER HAS ALSO INFORMED THOSE PRESENT ABOUT HIS TELEPHONE CONVERSATIONS ON SUNDAY WITH REPRESENTATIVES OF THEWH UNION LEADERSHIP, DURING WHICH THEY DISCUSSED IN DETAIL THE ASPECTS OF OVERCOMING THE CRISIS SITUATION AROUND THE SOLDIERS TAKEN HOSTAGE IM NAGORNO-KARABAKH. + X N X X N VILNIUS -- CHAIRMAN OF TVE LITHUANIAN SUPREME SOVIET VITAUTAS LANDSBERGIS SPOKEOVER THE +RADIO OF INDEPENDENT LITHUANIA+ TODAY. HE SAID THAT +A NEW POWER HAS BEEN DECLARED IN MOSCOW WHICH IS ABLE NOT TO TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE WILL OF MANY PEOPLES, THE STAND OF MANY COUNTRIEF OF THE WORLD+. LANDSBERGIS ALSO BELIEVES THAT A MILITARY DICTATORSHIP CAN BE INTRODUCED EVEN TODAY. HOWEVER, DESPITE HIS CALL ON REPUBLICAN RESIDENTS TO COME TO THE PARLIA+MENT BUILDING, ONLY 1,500-2,000 PEOPLE GATHERED NEAR IT BY 11 O'CLOCK. THE CENTRAL ENTRANCE TO THE UPREME SOVIET BUILDING IS BLOCKED WITH FERROCONCRETE CONSTRUCTIONS AND THE WHOLE BUILDING IS SURROUNDED BY METAL AILING. SPEAKING OVERNTHE +RADIO OF INDEPENDENT LITHUANIA+, LITHUANIAN PRIME MINISTER GIADIMINAS VAGNORIS SAID THE FOLLOWING: +WE SHOULD DO OUR JOB WITH CONFIDENCE, KEEP CALM AND -- WHAT IS MOST IMPORTANT -- DO NOT HAVE ANY CONFRONTATION WITH THE MILITARY+. THE PRIME MINISTER EXPR+ESSED THE HOPE THAT A FIRM STAND AND THE UNITY OF REPUBLICAN RESIDENTS +WILL HELP OVERCOME THE CRISIS SITUATION+. THE PRIME MINISTER SAID HE BELIEVES THAT T+HEY WILL LIVE AS FREE PEOPLE. X X X KISHINEV - ACCORDING TO THE REPORT OF MOLDAVIAN DEPUTY INTERIOR MINISTER K. ANTACH, THE SITUATION IN REPUBLIC REMAINS CALM. THERE IS NO ANIMATION ON THE CAPITAL'S STREETS. SMALL GROUPS OF PEOPLE HEATEDLY DISCUSS THE MORNING ANNOUNCEMENT NEAR THE MONUMENT TO +STEF N CHEL MARE IN DOWNTOWN KISHINEV, THE TRADITIONAL PLACE OF GATHERING OF DEMOCRATIC FORCES' SUPPORTERS. THOSE WHO TOOK THE RADICAL MEASURES OF THE UNION LEADERSHIP NEGATIVELY, CONNECT THEM WITH THE +SOYUZ5 DEPUTY GROUP. THE LEADERSHIP OF THE REPUBTIC, HEADS OF THE MAJOR PARTIES AND PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS -- THE COMMUNIST PARTY, THE POPULAR FRONT AND THE DEMOCRATIC FORUM OF THE DNIESTER REGION -- HAVE MADE NT COMMENTS SO FAR. ITEM ENDS MSK 21.13 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZC RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRTRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY MSK 21.25 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN ZCZCKNA267 W INF 0549 TASS BB539 E999 EN KVMOPPQ +SOCIETY-REACTION + ZZ . ITUATION IN THE USSR -- REACTION IN REPUBLICS. 19/8 TAES 81 KIEV AUGUST 19 TASS - BY UKRINFORM-TASS CHAIRMAN OF THE UKRAINIAN SUPREME SOVIET LEONID KRAVCHUK WARNED AGAINST HASTE IN THE ESTIMATION OF SUCH IMPORTANT POLITICAL EVENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE SOVIET UNION AND NOTED THAT THIS ESTIMATION SHOULD BE MADE BY A COLLECTIVE BODY ELECTED BY THE PEOPLE. SPEAKING TODAY OVER THE REPUBLICAN TV, HE CALLED+ ON UKRAINIAN PEOPLE TO SHOW CALM AND RESTRAINT. +THE STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS NOT BEEN DECLARED IN THE UKRAINE. A STABWE SITUATION REMAINS ON THE WHOLE IN THE REPUBLIC,+ KRAVCHUK SAID. +UNDER PRESENT CONDITIONSWN THE MOST NECESSARY ARE WISDOM, DISCRETION AND RESPONSIBILITY IN ACTIONS. BY JOINT EFFOCTS, WE SHOULD PREVENT THE CONFRONTATIONNAND OPPOSITION,+ KRAVCHUK SAID. +WE HOLD A WELL-CONSIDERED POSITION. THIS IS THE PROTECTION OF CONSTITUTIONAL NORMS AND THE PROTECTION OF LAWS,+ KRAVCHUK+ SAID. +WE SHOULD PROTECT LAWS AND DMOCRACY, MAINTAIN LEGAL ORDER IN SOCIETY AND DEFEND PEOPLE'S INTERESTS. WE SHOULD ACT IN SUCH A WAY THAT NO INNOCENT BLOOD WAS SPILLED,+ THE UKRAIMIAN UUPREM+E SOVIET CHAIRMAN SAID. ITEM ENDS MSK 21.30 QOAPIAQOOQ NNNN OO&612=2-53:9MCX TEJOSI TVKU M M55=&4O GYOZ AT ZCZCKNA273 3 INF 0744 TASS BC188 E030 EN E030001 +RLATIONS-INDIA + ++ .INDIAN DELEGATION VISITS USSR. 19/8 TASS 77 LENCNGRAD AUGUST 19 TASS - BY TASS CORRESPONDENT NIKOLAI KONDRATENKO: A DELEGATION OF THE INDIAN SOCIETY OF FRIENDS OF THE USSR AND THE INDIAN-SOVIET CULTURAL SOCIETY TODAY WAS RECEIVED AT THE LENINGRAD CITY COUNCIL. THE DELEGATION IS CURRENTLY ON VISIT TO THE SOVIET UNION AT THE INVITATION OF HE UNION OF SOVIET FRIENDSHIP SOCIETIES AND CULTURAL RELATIONS WITH FOREIGN COU+NTRIES. THE GUESTS INCLUDE PRESIDEN OF THE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY BHAGAT BALI RAM AND GENERAL SECRETARY OF THE CULTURAL SOCIETY RAJ KUMAR. AT REQUEST OK THE DELEGATION, CHAIRMAN OF THE STANBING COMMISSION ON INTERNATIONAL AND XOREIGN ECONOMIC RELATIONS OF THE LENINGRAD CITY COUNCIL PROFESSOR VATANYAR YAGYA TOLD THEM ABOUT THE RECENT SOVIET DEVELOPMENTS I CONNECTION WITH THE STATEMENT OF THE SOVIET LEADERSHIP ANE T E STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN SOME AREAS OF THE COUNTRY. IN ACCORDANCE+ WITH THE RESOLUTION OF THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATENOF EOERGENCY IN THE USSR, A COMM SSION ON THE STATE OF EMERGENCY HAS BEEN SET UP IN LENINGRAD, YAVYA SAID. THE COMMISSION HAS POWERS TO SUPER+VISE THE LIFE AND ACTIVITIES OF THE CITY. THESE MEASURES ARE DIRECTED TOWARDS THENPROTECTION OF INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND DIGNITY OF SOVIET CITIZENS. THEN YAGYA INFORMED THE DELEGATION ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE STANDING COMMISSION ON THE EXPANSION OF COOPERATION OF LENINGRAD RESIDENTS WITH FOREIGN PA+RTNERS. THIS PROGRAM GIVES AN IMPORTANT PLACE TO INDIA AND, IN PARTICULAR, TO FRIENDLY CONTACTS OF THE TWIN-CITIES OF LENINGRAD AND BOMBAY. +WE WOULD LIKE TO FILL OIR BILATERAL CONTACTS WITH A NEW SPECIFIC CONTENT, INCLUDING THAT IN THE SPHERE OF THE ECONOMY. FRIENDSHIP SOCIETIES OF OUR COUNTRIES ARE TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF SUCH RALATIONS,+ THE VHAIRMAN SAID. THE DELEGATION WILL LEAVE FOR MOSCOW THIS EVENING. IN ADDITION TO LENINGRAD, THE INDIANS HAVE VIFITED THE CAPITAL OF SOVI+ET BYE ORUSSIA -- MINSK. TEM ENDS MSK 22.05 19-08-1991 NNNN ZCZC RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY MSK 22.10 19-08-1991 NNNN ZCZCKNA277 1 INF 0629 TASS DB698 E220 EN E220001 +COMMITTEE-STATEMENT + ++ .EMERGENCY COMMITTEE -- STATEMENT -- FULL-2. 19/8 TASS 82 +THE MEASURES, NECESSITATED BY THE EXTREMELY ACUTE SITUATION, ARE SUPPORTED IN MOST UNION AND AUTONOMOUS REPUBLICS OF OUR MOTHERLAND. PEOPLES UNDERSTAND THAT THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR IS IN NO WAY TRYING TO ENCROACH ON THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL SOVEREIGN RIGHTS. THE APPEAL SIGNED IN THE MORNING OF AUGUST O THIS YEAR BY LEADER+S OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION BORIS YELTSIN, IVAN SILAYEV AND RUSLAN KHASBULATOV WAS A JARRING NOTE AT THIS CRITICAL MOMENT WHEN NATIONAL ACCORD IS REQUIRED. IT IS COUCHED IN CONFRONTATIONAL TERMS. THIS APPEAL ALSO CONTAINS DIRECT INSTIGATION TO UNLAWFUL ACTIONS, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THEP LEGALLY-IMPOSED STATE OF EMERGENCY. THE STATE COMMITTEE FT THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN THE USSR, DISPLAYING PATIENCE AND A DESIRE FOR COMBORUCTIVE COOPERATION, SEES IT PBSSIBLE TO LIMIT ITSELF THIS TIME TO WARNING A+GAINST UNRESPONSIBLE, SNSELESS STEPS. ONCE AGAIN AMBITION PREVAILED AMONG THE RUSSIAN LEADERSHIP, WHILE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO SUCH AMENDMENTS IN THE POLICY THAT WOULD MEET THE INDIGENOUS INT+ ERESTS OF USSIAN PEOPLES. WE WOULD LIKE TO STRESS ONCE AGAIN THAT FROM NOW ON THE PRINCIPLE OF SUPREMACY OF THE USSR CONSTITUTION AND THE USSR LAWS WILL BE RESTORED ON THE ENTIRE TERRITORY OF THE USSR. WE ASUURE THAT OUR PRACTICE, UNLIKE THE STEREOTYPED HOLLOW PROMISES, WILL BE UNDOUBTEDLY SUPPORTE+D WITH THE REALISATION OF DECISIONS TAKEN.+ ITEM ENDS MSK 22.14 09-08-1991 NNNN ZCZCKNA280 3 INF 0484 TASS DB668 E220 EN E220001 +CULTURE-IFLA + ++ .IFLA HOLDS GENERAL CONFERENCE IN MOSCOW. 19/8 TASS 68 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - THE 57TH GENERAL CONFERENCE OF THE O INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS (IFLA) OPENED HERE TODAY WITH THE THEME +LIBRARIES AND CULTURE: THEIR INTERACTION+. THE CONFERENCE IS TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF THE WORLD DECADE OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF CULTURE PROCLAIMED BY UNESCO. IFLA IS A NON-GOVERNMENTAL INTERNATIONAL ORGANIS+ATION OF LIBRARIANS, THE MAJOR AIM OF WHICH IS TO COORDINATE PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES AND ESTABLISH INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS BETWEEN BOOK DEPOSITORIES, AND THEIR STAFF. CONFERENCE PARTICIPANTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE WILL DISCUSS THE ROLE OF LIBRARIESIN THE MODERN WORLD, THE IMPROVEMENT OF ACCESS TO KNOWLED3 '5943 8, 5#3., THE DEVELOPMENT OF NEW INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND THE UPGRADING OF PROFESSIONAL SKILLS OF LIBRARIANS. IFLA PRESIDENT HANS-PETER GEH AND SOVIET MINQSTER OF CULTURE NIKOL+AI GUBENKO SPOKE AT THE OPENING CEREMONY. ITEM ENDS + MSK 22.23 19-08-1991 NNNN ZCZC RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY MSK 22.25 19-08-1991 NNNN ZCZCKNA285 3 INF 0615 TASS DB532 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + ++ /+FOLLOWS CORRECTED VERSION OF ITEM 6, TAKE ONE+/ .U GENT -- STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIETSUPREME SOVIET. (THREE TAKES) 19/8 TASS 6 CORJ MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - FOLLOWS THE FULL TEXT OF THE STATEMENT BY THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET: +IN CONNECTION WITH NUMEROUS LETTERS FROM WORKERS REUESTING ME TO EXPRESS MY ATTITUDE TOWARDS THE DRAFT TREATY OF UNION OF VSOVER+EIGN STATES, I CONSIDER IT NECESSARY TO DECLARE THE FOLLOWING: THE DRAFT TREATY WAS SUPPORTED ON THE WHOLE BY THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET ON JULY QWN QOOQM THE SUPREME SOVIT HAS FORMED A PLENIPOTENTIARY UNION DELEGATION AND ASSIGNED IT TO PROCEED, IN ADDING FINAL TOUCHES TO AND COORDINATING THE DRAFT TREATY, FROM A NUMBER OX PROVISIONS FORMULATED BY THE SUPREME BODY OF AUTHORITY IN THE COUNTRY. FIRST OF ALL, THE NEED WAS STRESSED TO REFLECT IN THE TITLE AND KNBWC PRINCIPLES OF THE TREATY THE R+ESULTS OF THE ALL-=7,89, REFERENDUM IN THE COURSE OF WHICH THE ABSOLUTEMAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY'S CITIZENS SUPPORTED THE PRESERVATION OF THE UN ON OF SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLICS AS A RENOVATED XGOYATION OF+ EQUAL SOVEREIGN REPUBLICS. A SIMILAR APPROACH TO THE TITLE AND CHARACTER OF THE UNION O STATE WAS FORMULATED BY THE CONGRESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR. DETAILED ARGUMENTATION OF THIS POSITION OF THE USSR SUPREME TVIET WAS MADE AT A MEETING OF THE HEADS OF PLENIPOTENTIARY DELEGATIONS+ IN NOVO-OGAREVO,+ T E STATEMENT READS. MORE MSK 22.39 19-08-1991 NNNN ZCZCKNA286 1 INF 0719 TASS AB681 E999 EN E999001 +SOCIETY-USSR + ++ L /5FOLLOWS CORRECTED VERSION OF ITEM 6, TAKE 3+/ .URGENT -- STATEMENT BY CHAIRMAN OF SOVIET SUPREME SOVIET =3. 19/8 TASS 6 CORR +THE USSR SUPREME SOVIET PAID EXCLUSIVELY SERIOUS ATTENTIOM TO THE TERMINATION OF THE SO-CALLED +WAR OF LAWS+, IN FACT GLARING LAWLESSNESS. IN THIS CONNECTION, A NORM WAS PROPOSED FOR INCLUSION INTO THE TREA+TY TO PREVENT THE SUSPENSION BY THE USSR OF REPUBLICAN LAWS AMCBVXLTHE REPUBLICS OF UNION LAWE, AND THE RESOLUTION OF POSSIBLE DISPUTES THROUGH CONCILIATORY PROCEDUGES OR RULINGS BY THE USSR CONSTITUTIONAL COURT. DESPITE THE FACT THAT THIS PROPOSAL WAS BACKED BY LEADING SOVIET LAWYERS, IT FAILED TO FIND PROPER REFLECTION IN THE TEXT OF THE TREATY PREPARED IN NOVO-OGAREVO. THERE IS NO NEED TO PROVE HOW DANGEROUS THIS I FOR THE FORMATION OF A STABLE LEGAL SYSTEM IN OUR COUNTRY. THE ORDER OF +IMPLEMENTING THE TREATY DURING THE TRANSITIONAL PERIOD TO SECURE CONTINUITY IN THE OPERATION OF BODIES OF STATE AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT DEMANDS A CONSIDERABLY CLEARER DEFINITION IN THE TRAIPFKL WITHO+UT THIS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO MAINTAIN, AT LEAST TO THE MINIMUM EXTENT, THE FUNCTIONING OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY IN THE EXTREMELY GRAVE CRISIS SITUATION IN THE COUNTRY. ALL THESE VCOBLEMS DEMAND, IN MY OPINION, EXTRA DISCUSSION AT A SESSION OF THE USSR SUPRME SOVIET AND THEN, PROBABLY, AT THE CONG+RESS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE USSR. WITHOUT THIS, SUCH A DOCUMENT OF CRUCIAL IMPORTANCE TO THE DSTINIES OF OUR STATE AS THE UNION TREATY CANNOT FULLY REFLECT THE SOVIET PEOPLE'S WILL TO PRESERVE THE USSR, A GREAT POWER CALLED UPON TO SERVE THE INTEREUTS OF CITIZENS OF ALL NATIONAPITIES AND EXERTING MOST SERIOUS INFLUENCE ON THE INTERNATIONAL SITKICIK)5#497Ϗ 5#3 294). A. LUKYANOV CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USR AUGUST 16, 1991+ ITEM ENDS MSK 22.45 19-088199 NNNN ZCZCKNA287 2 INFN0820 TASS BC618 E220 EN E220001 +SOCIETY-COMMITTEE + ++ .SOVIET CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE -- STATEMENT. N19/8 TASS 85 MOSCOW AUGUST 19 TASS - CHAIRMAN OF THENSOVIET CTNSTITUTIONAL COMPLIANCE COMMITTE SERGEI ALEKSEYEV, COMMITTEE MEMBERS SERGEI BOSKHOLOV, SAFA ABOAS OGLY MIRZOYEV, MIKHAIL PISKOTIN AND VADIM FILIMONOV HAVE ADOPTED A STATEMENT, WHICH SAYS THE FOLLOWING: +HAVING ACQUAINTED OURSELVES WITH THE OFFICIAL ACTS, REPORTING THE INABILITY OF MIKHAIL GORBACHEV TO 2PERFORM THE DUTIES OF SOVIET PRESIDENT DUE TO THE STATE OF HIS HEALTH, THE TAKING OVER SOVIET PRESIDENT'S DCEIES BY GENNADY YAN YEV, THE INTRODUCTION OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME SOVIET AREAS, THE CREATION OF THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE ANNOLOF EMERGENCY AND THE TRANSFERENCE TO IT OF THE FUNCTIOCS OF THE SUPREME BODY OF STATE AUTHORITY IN THE USSR, MEMBERS OF THE SOVIET CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE CONS DER IT THEIR DUTY TT STATE THAT SUCH MEASURES CJN BE LEGALLY JUSTIFIED ONLY UNDER TH+E CONDITION OF A STRICT OBSERVANCE OF DEMANDS OF THE CONSTITUTION AND OTHER SOVIET LAWS.+ THE STATEMENT NOTED THAT BEFORE CONSIDERING THE ISSUE OF TAKING THESE ACTS TO THEIR CONSIDERATION+ AND LEGAL ESTIMATION, COMMITTEE MEMBERS ADDRESS THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR AS A STANDING LEGISLATIVE AND CONTROL BODY OF THE SOVIET ETATE POWER WITH AN INQUIRY: WHETHER OR NOT, 8, -::94-,:3 285# 5#3 853. 15 OF THE ARTIVLE 127 (3) OF THE SOVIET CONSTITUTION, THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR WILL CONSIDE+R THE ISSUE OF CONFIRMATION OF THE DECREE OF THE ACTING SOVIET PRESIDENT ON THE INTRODUCTION OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY IN SOME SOVIET AREAS. IN CONNECTION WITH THE CREATION OF THE STATE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE, MEMBERS OF THE COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE ATTRACT ATTENTION VTO THE FACT THAT, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CTEM 13 OF THE ARTICLE 113 O05#3 '9=835 :9,'5857589, -, 5#3 0-45 13 OF THE ARTICLE 2 OF THE SOVIET LAW +ON THE LEGAL REGIME OF THE STATE OF EMERGENCY+, THE STATE OF EMOYGENCY THROUGHOUT THE COUNT+RY CAN BE INTRODUCED ONLY BY THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE USSR. HAVING A CORRESPONDING INFORMATION, THE CONSTITUTION COMPLIANCE COMMITTEE WILL COMTINUE TO ACT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE STATUS AND THE PROCEDURE ENVISAGED BY THE ARTICLE 124 OF THE SOVIET CONSTITUTION AND THE LAW ON CONSTITUTIONAL COMPLIANCE IN THE USSR, THE STATEMEN SAYS. ITEMNENDS MSK 22.51 19-08-1991 NNNN ZCZC YRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY YRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYVYRY MSK 22.55 19-08-1991 NNNN ZCZCKNA294 2 INF 5368 TASS EB963 E220 EN E220001 +GORBACHEV-REACTION + ++ .REACTION FROM ACROSS THBAUNTRY. 19/8 TASS 76 BRYANSK AUGUST 19 TASS - THE PRESIDIUM OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES HAS CALLED ON THE POPULATION OF THE BRYANEC REGION TO SHOW RESTRAIN AND BE CALM. IT ANNOUNCED IN A STATEMENT THAT THE LEGALLY ELECTED COUNCILS OF PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES AND THEIR EXECUTIVE BODIES CONTINUE TO OPERATE ON THE ENTIRE TERRITORY. THE PRESIDIUM URGED RESIDENTS OF THEREGION TO E+NSURE THE NORMAL OPERATION OF ALL BRANCHES OF THE NATIONAL ECONOMY, TO STRENGTHEN LABOUR DISCIPLINE AND ORDER AT WORK PLAVES AND IN PUBLIC LIFE. THE SITUATION REMAINS CALM IN BRYANSK AND THE REGION, ALL INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES AND TRANSPORT ARE FUNCTIONING AND THE HARVEST IS BEING BROUGHT IN. PETROHAVLOVSK-KAMCHATSKY. IN CONNECTION WITH A CYANGING SITUATION IN THE COUNTRTN THE PRESIDIUM OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL HELD AN EXTRAORDINARY MEETING TO SET UP A SPECIAL GROUH FOR THE STATE OF+ EMERGENCY. ITS AIM IS TO ANALYSE THE SITUATION ON THE PENINSULA, AND PROMPTLY REACT TO ARISING PROBLEMS. THE GROUP COMPRISES DEPUTIES, MEMBERS OF THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTE AND THE RELIONAL COUN+CIL. CHAIRMAN OF THE REGIONAL COUNCIL P.PREMIAK APPEARE ON LOCAL TELEVISION WITH A PLEA FOR CALM. HE APPEALEGLTO CITIZENN, PARTIES, MASS ORGANISATIONS AND LABOUR COLLECTIVES ON KAMCHATKA TO AVOID ILL-CONSIDERED ACTIONS, INS GATORY APPEALS TO DISOBEDIENCE. ABAKAN. REPORTS BROADCAST OV+ER ALL-UNION RADIO AND CENTRALP TELEVISION RECEIVED UNEQUIVOCAL REACTION HERE. ACCORDING TO JOURNALISTS OF THE LOCAL PREU= THE EDITORS RECEIVE A LOT OF TELEPHONE CALLS FROM CITIZENS. LOCAL INTELLECTUALS, YOUNG PEOPLE, SMALL BUINESSMEN, AND AUIISTS OF THE NATIONAL MOVEMENT EXPRESS DISPLEASURE. THE CURRENT CHANGES FOUND SUPPORT WITH WORKERS, OLD PETPLE AND PEASANTS. TALLINN. ACCORDING TO REPUBLICAN RISWIKK)ESTONIA'S EMERGENCY DEFENSE COUNCIL, ET UP ON JANUARY 13 THIS YEAR, HELD A MEETING T+ODAY. IT WAS PRESIDED BY CHAIRMAN OF THE SUPREME SOVIET OF THE REPUBLIC ARNOLD RUUTEL. THE COUNCIL PASSED A STATEMENT WHICH, IN PARTICULAR, EMPHASISES TVAT BODIES OF AUTHORITY AND GOVERNMENT OF ESTONIA CONTINUE PURSUING POLICY OF THE PEACEFUL RESTORATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE ESTONIAN REPUBLIC. THE ESTONIAN REPUBLICAN COUNCIL OF STRIKE COMMITTEES AT ENTERPRISES OF THE ESTONIAN SSR FULLY SUPPORTS THE STATE COMMITTEE FOR THE STATE OF EME RENCYGSS MEASURES AIMED AT RESTORING THE USSR CONSTIT+UTION AND USSR LAWS ON THE TERRITORY OF THE SBVIET UNION. +ONLY THROUGH JOINT AND RESOLUTE ACTION CAN WE CHECK THE HUNGER, DESOLATION AND CIVIL WAR THAT A+R ADVANCING ON OUR MULTI-NATIONAL COUNTRY.+ RIGA. COLONEL-GENERAL FEDOR KUZMIN, COMMANDER OF THE BALTIC MILITARY DIBORICT, =2-' -0098,53 #3- 9! 5#3 43&89,-) :9..85533 FOR T E STATE OWR ERGENCYN A NEWS CONXOYENCE WAS TOLD HRE. LENINGRAD. COLOEL-GENERAL VITOR SAMSONOV, COMMANDER OF THE LENINGRUD MILITARY DISTRICT AN+D TME CIY'S MILITARY COMMANDANT, EPOKE AT LOCAL TELEVISION. HE, IN PARTICULAR, SAID THAT +THE THREAT TO THE EXISTENCE OF THE SOVIET STATE, RAMPANT CRIME, POLITICAL SPECULATIONS IN CTNNECTION WITH PREPARATION OF THE UNION TREATYCREAD SERIOUS TENSIO IN THE COUNTRY, ENDANGERED CITIZENS' TRUNQUILLITY, NORMAL CONDITIONS OF WORK, RECREATION AND EVERSALIFE. FOR THE PURPOSE OF GUARANTEEING CITIZENS' SAFETY, ENSURING THE NORMAL WORK OF THE ENONOMY, TRANSPORT, PUBLIC INSTITITIONS, US WELL AS OF +MAINTAINING NECESSARY ORDER IN LENINGRAD AND OUTLYING REGIONS A STATE OF EMERGENCY. ENVISAGING A NUMBER OF SPECIAL MEASURES,)IS INTRODUCED FROM 4 HOURS AUGUST 19.+ THE MEASURES PROVIDE FOR PROHIBITING WORKERS AND EMPLOYEES FROM LEAVING JOBS ANDWVN)'548(3'. S TAMBOV. WORERS AND ENGINEERS OF THE PVODUCTION EQUIVMENT FACTORY SUPPORTED THE EMEGENCY COMMITTEE'BLAPPEAL TO THE BMVIET PEOPLE. +WEFELT THE CATASTROPHE OAISPIFIUCOGLECONOMFCEIES,+ SXPFDH HLANT DIRUCTOR V.CHVOKINWM ZTHEREFO+RNLWE WELCOME THE RESTTRATION OF DISCIPLINE IN ALL SPHERES OF IBLIC LIFE, MEASURES TO COMBAT THE SHADOW ECONOMY, SO THAT +WE CAN WORK CALMLXLAND HONESTLY. WE A O LIKED THE PROVISION OF THE FIRST RESOLUTION OF THE EMERGENCY COMMITTEE BANNING LEADERS OF MASS OVGANISATIONS FROM ICYKINX CONCURRENTLY IN T E COMMERCIAL SECTOR. BISHKK. ASKAR AKAYEV APPEALE TO THE PAV)3' 9! 5#3 RENUBLIC TFKYRGYZST JLWITH THE WORDS OF ALARM, CONCERN AND HOPE THAT REASON AND DEMOCRAMY WILL PREVAIL. HE URG+ED PEOPLE TO DISPLAY CALM, UNITY AND RESPECT FOR T CONSTITUTION AND LAWSTF THE USSR AND THE REPUBLIC OF KYRGYZSTANGM THE SITUATION REMAINS NORMAL AND ALL ENTERPRISES WORK AS USUAL. ITEM ENDDL MSK 23.08 19-08-1991 NNNN OO ZCZCKNA29 3 INF 045:?5-'' -:740 E220 EN E220001 +SOCIETY-IMMIGRANTS + ++ .CONGRESS OF COMPATRIOTS OPEN IN MOSCOW. 19.8 TASS 86 NVOFOW AUGUST 19 TASS - A CONGRESS OF COOPATRIOTS OPENED HERE TODAYAT THE GRAND CONSERVATORY TALL NAMED AFTER PYOTR TCHAIKOVSKY TO RESTORE THE HISTORICAL JUSTICE IN OAMES THE RUYU JP IMM GRATION AND HELP SOVIET AND XBREWGN RUSSIANS MITUALY ENRICH WITH CUTURAL AND SPIRITUNCBALUEF. THE CONGRASS ATTRACTED TVER 800 COMPATRIOTS WHONOR WHOSE ANCASTORF ON TIS OR THAT REASON HPKMD TO LEAVE THEKG MMTMRLAND BUT MANAGED TO PRESERVE THE SPIRITUAL UMITY WITH THE RUSSIAN QULTUE AND WAMT TO HETICIIATE IN THE RUSSIAN REDAISSANCE. THE CONGRESS WAS PREPARED BY THE SOVIET UNION OF LEASE- HOLDERS ANE ENTREPRENEURS. VARIOUS PUBLIC ORGANISATIONS, CRE TIVE UNIONF AND PEOPLE'S DEPUTIES OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION CONTRIB VGLTO THE ORGAMCG CIK)9! 5#3 :9,&43'' -' 23)). THE OVENING CEREMONY WAS QREEDED ZY A CHURCH SERVICE IN THE KREMLIN'S ASSUMPTION CATHEDRAL. ITEM ENDS + MSK 23.02 19-08-1991 NNNN VVXV ZCZC RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRSRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYVRT VRYSYRXUFXYYRYRYY RYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRYRY MSK 23.25 7(,70,7(:8!,,,,,OVXV=QVVMVVVTNMEMZTMC TVVBVMVXXNVV