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Georgia Stakes on Real Estate
The U.N. General Assembly will vote today on the resolution on internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia (Georgia). The resolution proposed by Georgia spells out the requirement for the U.N. members to ban the persons under its jurisdiction to acquire any property in Abkhazia to the detriment of rights of Georgian refugees. If the resolution is passed, Tbilisi will get a solid ground for new claims against Moscow.
Unlike the Security Council resolutions, the resolutions of General Assembly are the mere recommendations that are not binding for the execution. But their significance is hard to underestimate. They give a chance to speak of the support of the majority of the world community.
In addition to the reference to ethnic purge and acknowledgement of significance of the right to return all refugees, the resolution spells out quite definite ideas, including the need to promptly make up the schedule for voluntary return of all refugees and internally displaced persons to their houses in Abkhazia.
Sources with the U.N. said that, although compiled based on nonbinding resolution, the schedule will allow defining the deadline and to hold up to shame the violator, i.e. Abkhazia.
The draft sets forth more material demands, specifying, for instance, the address to all U.N. members to ban the persons under its jurisdiction from buying any property in Abkhazia in violation of the rights of returning refugees. This demand is clearly aimed against Russia, which individuals and government’s structures have bought property in Abkhazia.
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All the Article in Russian as of May 15, 2008
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