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Georgia Carries Forward Counter-Attack
Council of Europe's Commissioner for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg arrived in Georgia yesterday to inspect the progress in Medvedev-Sarkozy peace deal. Georgia’s Foreign Ministry doesn’t conceal the intention to use Hammarberg’s report at the next sitting of PACE to condemn Russia’s aggression.
Thomas Hammarberg that visits Tbilisi for the second time after the war declared straight in the airport that he would assess the progress in executing Medvedev-Sarkozy peace deal of six provisions. The commissioner reiterated additional settlement terms for the conflict settlement that he elaborated by results of the first visit to the combat zone.
Amid them are the displaced persons’ right for returning home, granting aid and establishing living conditions for displaced persons till they return home, clearing the combat zone of mines, reducing things to order and laws in the areas affected by war, exchanging prisoners of war and guaranteeing international presence in the suffered areas.
In Georgia’s Foreign Ministry, they don’t bother to conceal the intention to use Hammarberg’s report at the next sitting of PACE to condemn Russia’s aggression.
As to the refugees’ problem, the number of registered refugees from South Ossetia and adjacent regions has reached 30,000, and Georgia’s government is building over 6,000 houses for them in central and southern regions of the country. The plans are to spend to the effect roughly $2 billion of $4.5-billion aid that the West injected into Georgia after the war. The funds are being spent to settle not only South Ossetia’s refugees but also the refugees from Abkhazia, which number is estimated at between 200,000 and 300,000 starting from 1992.
Georgian authorities have found an ingenious method to solve refugees’ problem and to support real sector of economy. Billions of dollars appropriated to refugees to buy houses will surely hike real estate prices and revive the economy, said independent expert Murman Kuprashvili.
Another problem that Georgia will raise in time of Hammarberg’s visit is the retention of Akhalgor district and Perevi-village by Russia’s and South Ossetia’s military. Those regions were the part of South Ossetian Republic in time of the Soviet Union but their residents are mostly ethnic Georgians.
Hammarberg will go to South Ossetia after Georgia.
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All the Article in Russian as of Nov. 13, 2008
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