United Nations resolutions on Abkhazia

The Security Council of the United Nations passed 32 resolutions where it recognizes Abkhazia as an integral part of Georgia and supports its territorial integrity according to the principles of the international law. The UN is urging both sides to settle the conflict through peaceful means by intensifying diplomatic dialogue and ratifying the final accord about the status of Abkhazia in the Georgian Constitution. [cite journal
quotes = | date = 1 March, 1995 | title =Georgia/Abkhazia: Violations of the Laws of War and Russia's Role in the Conflict | journal =Human Rights Watch Arms Project Human Rights Watch/Helsinki | volume = 7| issue = 7 | pages = | publisher=Human Rights Watch| url =http://www.hrw.org/reports/pdfs/g/georgia/georgia953.pdf | format = PDF | accessdate = 2007-01-24 ] [cite book | first=Svetlana Mikhailovna | last=Chervonnaia | title =Conflict in the Caucasus: Georgia, Abkhazia, and the Russian Shadow | publisher=Gothic Image Publications | date= January 1994 | isbn =090636230X | ISBN status=May be invalid - please double check ] Moreover, United nations calls for immediate return of all expelled ethnic Georgians (approximately 250,000) and determining the final status of Abkhazia as maximum autonomy or federative structure within the borders of the Georgian state. The resolutions also commend Russia's role as a peacekeeper and facilitator towards a resolution of the conflict. Resolution 1716 also urges Georgia to ensure that no troops are present in the Kodori Gorge and asks Georgia to refrain from provocative actions in the Kodori Gorge.

On May 15, 2008 United Nations General Assembly adopted a non-binding resolution recognising the right of all refugees (including victims of reported “ethnic cleansing”) to return to Abkhazia and their property rights. It "regretted" the attempts to alter pre-war demographic composition and called for the "rapid development of a timetable to ensure the prompt voluntary return of all refugees and internally displaced persons to their homes." [ [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2008/ga10708.doc.htm GENERAL ASSEMBLY ADOPTS RESOLUTION RECOGNIZING RIGHT OF RETURN BY REFUGEES, INTERNALLY DISPLACED PERSONS TO ABKHAZIA, GEORGIA] , 15.05.2008]

The following are United Nations resolutions adopted by the Security Council with regards to Abkhazia:
* [http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N93/393/04/IMG/N9339304.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 849] (July 9, 1993);
* [http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N93/439/03/IMG/N9343903.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 854] (August 6, 1993);
* [http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N93/466/03/IMG/N9346603.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 858] (August 24, 1993);
* [http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N93/566/50/PDF/N9356650.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 876] (October 19, 1993);
* [http://www.unomig.org/data/file/345/4nov93.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 881] (November 4, 1993);
* [http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N93/725/17/PDF/N9372517.pdf?OpenElement UN Security Council Resolution 892] (December 22, 1993);
* [http://www.unomig.org/data/file/347/896_94.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 896] (January 31, 1994);
* [http://www.unomig.org/data/file/348/901_94.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 901] (March 25, 1994);
* [http://www.unomig.org/data/file/350/934_94.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 934] (June 30, 1994);
* [http://daccessdds.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N94/298/25/PDF/N9429825.pdf UN Security Council Resolution 973] (July 21, 1994);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC95/971SC95.html UN Security Council Resolution 971] (January 12, 1995)
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC95/993SC95.html UN Security Council Resolution 993] (May 12, 1995)
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC96/1036SC96.html UN Security Council Resolution 1036] (January 12, 1996);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC96/1065SC96.html UN Security Council Resolution 1065] (July 12, 1996);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC97/1096SC97.html UN Security Council Resolution 1096] (January 30, 1997);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC97/1124SC97.html UN Security Council Resolution 1124] (January 30, 1997);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC98/1150SC98.html UN Security Council Resolution 1150] (January 30, 1998);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC98/1187SC98.html UN Security Council Resolution 1187] (July 30, 1998);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC99/1225SC99.html UN Security Council Resolution 1225] (January 28, 1999);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC99/1255SC99.html UN Security Council Resolution 1255] (October 13, 1999);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC00/1287SC00.html UN Security Council Resolution 1287] (January 31, 2000);
* [http://www1.umn.edu/humanrts/resolutions/SC00/1311SC00.html UN Security Council Resolution 1311] (July 28, 2000);
* (January 31, 2001);
* (July 31, 2001);
* (January 31, 2002);
* (July 29, 2002);
* (January 30, 2003);
* (July 30, 2003);
* (January 30, 2004);
* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8683.doc.htm UN Security Council Resolution 1666] (January 30, 2006);
* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2006/sc8851.doc.htm UN Security Council Resolution 1716] (October 13, 2006);
* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/sc8997.doc.htm UN Security Council Resolution 1752] (April 13, 2007);
* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2007/sc9142.doc.htm UN Security Council Resolution 1781] (October 15, 2007).
* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2008/sc9299.doc.htm UN Security Council Resolution 1808] . April 15, 2008.
* [http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2008/ga10708.doc.htm UN General Assembly Resolution GA/10708] . May 15, 2008.

Notes

See also

* Georgian-Abkhaz Conflict
* Abkhazia
* Ethnic cleansing of Georgians in Abkhazia

External links

* [http://www.apsny.ge/docs.php Resolutions and Documents on Abkhazia]