In the resolution of the UN General Assembly on the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees from South Ossetia and Abkhazia there is no a word that the cause of the problem is the military aggression unleashed by Georgia in 1989 against the South Ossetian and Abkhaz peoples, the RSO Foreign Ministry said in a commentary.
“On June 7, within the framework of the 77th session of the UN General Assembly in New York, the resolution initiated by Georgia on the situation of internally displaced persons and refugees from South Ossetia and Abkhazia was once again adopted. The annual adoption by the UN of this one-sided document, which absolutely distorts the real state of affairs, is still being used by Georgia as a propaganda step, giving, according to the Georgian authorities, legitimacy to Georgia's illegal claims on the territory of neighboring states, as well as imposing on the international community a non-existent agenda of the so-called “occupation of the Georgian territories,” the Foreign Ministry said in a comment.
The Foreign Ministry noted that there is no mention in the document that as a result of ethnic cleansing, more than one hundred thousand of its residents of Ossetian nationality were forced to leave the territory of Georgia.
“Such selective “forgetfulness” nullifies the significance of this annual UN resolution, traditionally adopted without taking into account the opinion of those to whom, in fact, claims and demands are made. For many years of regular adoption, this document has not contributed in any way to the practical solution of the real problems of the people to whom it is dedicated. Moreover, Georgia's vicious practice of speculating on this very serious problem has led to blocking the discussion of the issue of refugees and IDPs in the framework of the Geneva discussions,” the Ministry stressed.
The Foreign Ministry added that such Georgian initiatives, carried out for the sake of collecting political dividends, seriously complicate the work of the Geneva discussions, the only dialogue format that allows representatives of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia to directly exchange views and assessments of what is happening in search of common ground.
