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Azerbaijan votes for, but Armenia against the UN General Assembly resolution on Abkhazia

16 May 2008 09:48 (UTC +04:00)

Georgia, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, USA, Albania, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania, Slovakia and Sweden voted for and Russia, Armenia, Belarus, North Korea, India, Iran, Myanmar, Serbia, Sudan, Syria and Venezuela voted against the resolution. The resolution urged to schedule voluntary and immediate returning of Abkhazian refugees and internally displaced persons to their homelands. The document noted that it was inadmissible to change the demographic situation existed before the Abkhazian conflict and condemned all efforts toward this. The resolution requested the UN Secretary General to submit a comprehensive report on the implementation of this resolution. The resolution is non-binding and its implementation is not constrained in distinction from the resolution of UN Security Council.
Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili welcomed the resolution. â€œThis resolution recognizes facts of ethnic cleansing and violation of international law in Abkhazia. The document guarantees returning of refugees and internally displaced persons to their homelands and their property rights and declares any economic activities and other illegal actions as illegitimate. The General Assembly requested UN Secretary General to make report on the implementation of the resolution in Septemberâ€.