UNOMIG Mandate Extended

On July 29 the UN Security Council extended the mandate of the 12-year-old UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) for the next six months.

In a document adopted on July 29, the Council condemned the continued lack of progress on key issues, which has long blocked a comprehensive political settlement of the separatist conflict in Abkhazia and called on both sides to participate in constructive negotiations and to spare no efforts to overcome their ongoing mutual distrust.

On July 27 Georgian Presidential representative for Abkhaz conflict settlement Irakli Alasania, who also chairs the Tbilisi-based Abkhaz government in exile, addressed the Security Council members and briefed them about the situation in the conflict zone.

Alasania spoke about the Tbilisi?s new proposal about joint a Abkhaz-Georgian declaration which guarantees the non-resumption of hostilities and also deals with the return of Georgian displaced persons.

Alasania also stressed the abuse of human rights in Abkhazia?s predominately Georgian-populated Gali district.

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