RESOLUTION on conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia, adopting by the OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY

1. Underlining the importance of the OSCE to work for the peaceful political settlement of the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia.

2. Reaffirming that the conflict be settled according to the recognized principles of international law, and the relevant resolutions of the UN Security Council, and as provided by the decisions and resolutions of the OSCE Budapest and Lisbon Summits, the parliamentary Assembly of the Council of  Europe and relevant CIS Bodies within the territorial integrity of Georgia and guaranteeing extensive autonomy for Abkhazia and providing remedies for ethnic cleansing, committed in Abkhazia as stated by the Lisbon Summit of the OSCE.

3. Emphasizing that any solution should be based on the priority of respect for human rights, including the right of all refugees and displaced persons to return safely as such return should make an essential element of any negotiated settlement.

4. Supports an idea of convening an International Peace Conference on the conflict in Abkhazia, Georgia under the auspices of the United Nations with the participation of OSCE, the group of “friends of Georgia”, the sides of the conflict and taking into account the role of the Russian Federation as Fasilitator.

Stresses the urgency of taking decisions to facilitate the above, considering the desperate situation of the refugees and displaced persons as result of the absence of any substantial progress in the settlement of the conflict and in view of the expiration of the term of the mandate of the CIS peacekeeping force on July 31, 1997.

Warsaw, 8 July 1997

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