Identifier
Created
Classification
Origin
09TBILISI1236
2009-07-06 14:08:00
CONFIDENTIAL
Embassy Tbilisi
Cable title:
GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST ON UN RESOLUTION 62/249
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C O N F I D E N T I A L TBILISI 001236
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREF PHUM GG
SUBJECT: GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST ON UN RESOLUTION 62/249
Classified By: Ambassador John F. Tefft for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
C O N F I D E N T I A L TBILISI 001236
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREF PHUM GG
SUBJECT: GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST ON UN RESOLUTION 62/249
Classified By: Ambassador John F. Tefft for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph .
2. (SBU) Shalva Tsiskarashvili, Deputy Director of the MFA
Office of International Organizations, asked poloff about
UNGA resolution 62/249, Status of Internally Displaced
Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, dated May 29
2008. The United States was one of 14 supporters of the
resolution. According to 62/249, the Secretary General should
submit a comprehensive report on the implementation of the
resolution on the status of IDPs an Refugees from Abkhazia
to the General Assembly during the 63rd sesion. This session
ends September 14 2009. Tsiskarashvili said the GOG has
inquired with UNHCR; approached Johan Verbeke, the UN
Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the
former UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG); and demarched
the Human Rights offices in Geneva and New York asking about
the status of the report. Tsiskarashvili said none of the
entities or individuals they have contacted are aware that
work on the report is under way. Tsiskarashvili said that
Peter Nicolaus of UNHCR in Tbilisi told him that he has not
been instructed to write such a report. Tsiskarashvili said
his concern is that if the report is not begun soon, Georgia
may not have time to respond before the next General
Assembly.
3. (SBU) Comment: Resolution 62/249, passed prior to the
August 2008 conflict, provides the Georgians with a unique
and likely unreplicable opportunity to highlight humanitarian
concerns in Abkhazia, as well as the fate of IDPs from the
region. If the proscribed report is not completed, Georgia
will lose this opportunity to underline humanitarian
concerns, as post-conflict, such a resolution would not
likely make it out of the General Assembly.
4. (U) Action request: Post requests that the Department
confirm with the UN the status of its action on UNGA
resolution 62/249.
TEFFT
SENSITIVE
SIPDIS
E.O. 12958: DECL: 04/07/2019
TAGS: PGOV PREF PHUM GG
SUBJECT: GEORGIA: ACTION REQUEST ON UN RESOLUTION 62/249
Classified By: Ambassador John F. Tefft for reasons 1.4 (b) and (d).
1. (U) This is an action request. Please see paragraph .
2. (SBU) Shalva Tsiskarashvili, Deputy Director of the MFA
Office of International Organizations, asked poloff about
UNGA resolution 62/249, Status of Internally Displaced
Persons and Refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, dated May 29
2008. The United States was one of 14 supporters of the
resolution. According to 62/249, the Secretary General should
submit a comprehensive report on the implementation of the
resolution on the status of IDPs an Refugees from Abkhazia
to the General Assembly during the 63rd sesion. This session
ends September 14 2009. Tsiskarashvili said the GOG has
inquired with UNHCR; approached Johan Verbeke, the UN
Secretary-General's Special Representative and head of the
former UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG); and demarched
the Human Rights offices in Geneva and New York asking about
the status of the report. Tsiskarashvili said none of the
entities or individuals they have contacted are aware that
work on the report is under way. Tsiskarashvili said that
Peter Nicolaus of UNHCR in Tbilisi told him that he has not
been instructed to write such a report. Tsiskarashvili said
his concern is that if the report is not begun soon, Georgia
may not have time to respond before the next General
Assembly.
3. (SBU) Comment: Resolution 62/249, passed prior to the
August 2008 conflict, provides the Georgians with a unique
and likely unreplicable opportunity to highlight humanitarian
concerns in Abkhazia, as well as the fate of IDPs from the
region. If the proscribed report is not completed, Georgia
will lose this opportunity to underline humanitarian
concerns, as post-conflict, such a resolution would not
likely make it out of the General Assembly.
4. (U) Action request: Post requests that the Department
confirm with the UN the status of its action on UNGA
resolution 62/249.
TEFFT