Georgia Against Truncated UN Resolution on Abkhazia

Georgian Ambassador to the UN Revaz Adamia called on the Security Council to maintain the principle of Georgia’s territorial integrity in a resolution on Abkhazia, which is scheduled to be formally approved on March 30.

“It happened to be impossible to achieve a consensual language on a draft resolution and subsequently the roll-over resolution was adopted [in January]. Now, due to intense negotiations held by Group of Friends of Secretary General in Geneva and Berlin the text of new draft is almost agreed. Although the final language is not yet achieved, there still is a hope that the main principles agreed in the previous resolutions of the Security Council will be maintained. These principles are well-known – sovereignty and territorial integrity of Georgia, defining of status of Abkhazia within the State of Georgia, non acceptance of violent or military solution and return of refugees and internally displaced persons. We appeal to Friends of Secretary General to adhere to those cornerstone principles, as according to our information not all of them are eager to keep that in the resolution language,” Revaz Adamia said in a letter to the UN Security Council on March 28.

In January, the UN Security Council adopted only a truncated resolution which simply extended the mandate of the UN Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) for two months, until March 31.

The Georgian envoy also called for turning the peace process in Abkhazia “towards introducing a real UN peace keeping operation, thus opening the way to solve the conflict.”