UN backs Georgia on return of refugees
Published 15 May, 2008, 16:56
The UN General Assembly has adopted a resolution on internally displaced persons and refugees from Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia. It spells out the necessity for a schedule of voluntary return of people to Abkhazia who fled hostilities in the early 90s.
The plan was drawn up by the Georgian delegation to the UN.
Abkhazia unilaterally declared its independence from Georgia in 1992, but the international community has not recognised it as a sovereign state.
The declaration of independence led to a full-scale military operation against Abkhazia by Tbilisi.
The conflict claimed thousands of lives, forcing more than 250 thousand ethnic Georgians leave their homes.
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