In connection with the draught resolution submitted by Georgia to the General Assembly of the United Nations about the position of temporary displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia
At 63 and 64 sessions of the General Assembly of the United Nations (in 2009 and in 2010y.y.) the draught resolution on refugees and internally displaced persons from Abkhazia and South Ossetia submitted by Georgia was being adopted. Thereby behind the reference to the humanitarian problems the Georgian side tries to thrust its extremely distorted vision of the refugee problem on the world community, and thereby supports its claims on the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. In the next draught resolution on refugees and internally displaced persons submitted by Georgia to the GA of the UN, which does not differ from the resolutions of the GA of the UN adopted earlier, it is said about the confirmation of rights of all the internally displaced persons and refugees and also their descendants on returning «in their houses all over the territory of Georgia, including Abkhazia and South Ossetia».
The authors of the draught resolution have not mentioned that the emergence of the problem of refugees and internally displaced persons is directly connected with the policy conducted by the Georgian government in 1989-1992 and also during the following years and the wars unleashed against South Ossetia and Abkhazia. It was not mentioned that out of the hundred thousands Ossetians who had escaped the ethnic cleansing on the territory of Georgia and found asylum in South Ossetia and the Russian Federation, only few people managed to return to their houses. In the draught resolution it is not mentioned the initiative of South Ossetia about its readiness to return all refugees, living on the territory of the Russian Federation and Georgia, irrespective of their nationality, in their constant residing in Leningorskiy region. Besides, the Georgian draught resolution completely ignores the fact of returning of more than 50 thousand Georgian refugees in Galsky region of Abkhazia by the initiative of the authorities of Abkhazia. The draught resolution does not consider not only the modern political realities, - in particular, the fact that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are the independent states,- but it has also not something in common with the aspiration to find the ways of resolving the difficult humanitarian issues. Such resolution in case of being adopted, will not only promote improvement of the position of refugees from Georgia, South Ossetia and Abkhazia, but it will rather negatively affect the course of the Geneva discussions which continue to remain a unique platform where the representatives of South Ossetia, Abkhazia and Georgia discuss a wide spectrum of existing problems including the problem of refugees and displaced persons. The main key to solution of the problem of refugees is not any diplomatic dodges and resolutions intended for propaganda effect which do not promote solution of the problem of refugees and internally displaced persons, but deviation from confrontational positions and signing the legally obliging agreement about refusal of force use, and finally - the peace treaty between Georgia, on the one hand, and the Republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. We are convinced that excessive politicization of the problem of refugees by Georgia substantially deprives of sense the work in this direction within the frames of the Geneva discussions. If Georgia prefers to conduct the discussion of the issues of refugees and internally displaced persons in such authoritative international body as the General Assembly of the United Nations, South Ossetia and Abkhazia will insist on participation in the discussion of this resolution at the United Nations to express their vision of the difficult problem. If the representatives of Abkhazia and South Ossetia have not such opportunity, it will not be any sense for us to discuss this problematic within the frames of the Geneva discussions.
