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08STATE51671
2008-05-15 13:39:00
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Secretary of State
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VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: GEORGIAN UNGA IDP AND

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TAGS: UNSC PHUM GE
SUBJECT: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: GEORGIAN UNGA IDP AND

REFUGEE RESOLUTION

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TAGS: UNSC PHUM GE
SUBJECT: VOTING INSTRUCTIONS: GEORGIAN UNGA IDP AND

REFUGEE RESOLUTION


1. (U) This is an action message. USUN is authorized to
vote in support of UN General Assembly Agenda Item 16
resolution on the "Status of Internally Displaced Persons and
Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia," in para 2 below, which is
scheduled for a vote on May 15.


2. (U) Begin resolution:

The General Assembly,

Recalling its relevant resolutions on the protection of and
assistance to internally displaced persons, including its
resolution 62/153 of 18 December 2007,

Recognizing the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement
as an important international framework for the protection of
internally displaced persons,

Deeply concerned about violations of human rights and
international humanitarian law in Abkhazia, Georgia,
particularly ethnicity-based violence,

Recalling all relevant Security Council resolutions; noting
the conclusions of the Budapest (1994),Lisbon (1996) and
Istanbul (1999) summits of the Organization for Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),in particular the reports of
ðnic cleansing8 and other serious violations of
international humanitarian law in Abkhazia, Georgia,

Deploring practices of arbitrary forced displacement and
their negative impact on the enjoyment of human rights and
fundamental freedoms by large groups of people, deeply
concerned by the humanitarian situation created by the
expulsion of hundreds of thousands of persons from Abkhazia,
Georgia,

Deeply concerned by the demographic changes resulting from
the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, and regretting any attempt
to alter pre-conflict demographic composition in Abkhazia,
Georgia,

Emphasizing that rights of Abkhaz population who live in
Abkhazia, Georgia have to be protected and guaranteed,

Recognizes the right of return of all refugees and internally
displaced persons and their descendants, regardless of
ethnicity, to Abkhazia, Georgia;


Emphasizes the importance of preserving the property rights
of refugees and internally displaced persons from Abkhazia,
Georgia including victims of reported & ethnic cleansing8
and calls upon all member states to deter persons under their
jurisdiction from obtaining property within the territory of
Abkhazia, Georgia in violation of the rights of returnees;

Underlines the urgent need for rapid development of a
timetable to ensure the prompt voluntary return of all
refugees and internally displaced persons, to their homes in
Abkhazia, Georgia;

Requests the Secretary General to submit to the General
Assembly at its sixty-third session a comprehensive report on
the implementation of the present resolution,

Decides to include in the provisional agenda of its
Sixty-Third session the item entitled & Protracted conflicts
in the GUAM area and their implications for the international
peace, security and development8.

End resolution.
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