The mandate of the Geneva Discussions includes the issue of resolving the refugee problem - it has been considered over many rounds, but since 2010 Georgia has been annually submitting its politicized resolution on refugees and internally displaced persons to the rostrum of the UN General Assembly.
This was stated at the briefing at the State Committee for Information and Press of the Republic by Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy of the Republic for post-conflict settlement, the head of the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva discussions, Murat Dzhioev.
The Plenipotentiary noted that "the resolution of Georgia pursues only political goals, the first of which is to fix in the document, which is then adopted by a majority of votes in the UN, the number of countries that supported it."
“The second thing Georgia is striving for is to fix that the territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are its parts or regions. And the third is to fix the solution only to the problem of refugees who appeared after August 2008,” said Murat Dzhioev.
The diplomat has added that the South Ossetian and Abkhazian delegations made an official statement several times in Geneva about their readiness to discuss the refugee issue at any international platform with the participation of all parties.
“We will discuss this issue, but only on the condition that we can present our vision of the refugee problem to the international community. As is known, after 1989, more than 100 thousand Ossetians were expelled from Georgia and the interior regions of South Ossetia on a national basis. Georgia, in turn, refuses to address this issue,” the Plenipotentiary said.
Murat Dzhioev has noted that today the Geneva discussions are the only international platform where South Ossetia has the opportunity to bring its position to the international community.
