A/RES/71/290
United Nations
Distr.: General
2 June 2017
General Assembly
Seventy-first session
Agenda item 32
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 1 June 2017
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/71/L.71)]
71/290. Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from
Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South
Ossetia, Georgia
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its relevant resolutions on the protection of and assistance to
internally displaced persons, including its resolutions 62/153 of 18 December 2007,
62/249 of 15 May 2008, 63/307 of 9 September 2009, 64/162 of 18 December 2009,
64/296 of 7 September 2010, 65/287 of 29 June 2011, 66/165 of 19 December 2011,
66/283 of 3 July 2012, 67/268 of 13 June 2013, 68/180 of 18 December 2013,
68/274 of 5 June 2014, 69/286 of 3 June 2015, 70/165 of 17 December 2015 and
70/265 of 7 June 2016,
Recalling also all relevant Security Council resolutions on Georgia relating to
the need for all parties to work towards a comprehensive peace and the return of
internally displaced persons and refugees to their places of origin, and stressing the
importance of their full and timely implementation,
Recognizing the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement 1 as the key
international framework for the protection of internally displaced persons,
Concerned by forced demographic changes resulting from the conflicts in
Georgia,
Concerned also by the humanitarian situation caused by armed conflict in
August 2008, which resulted in the further forced displacement of civilians,
Mindful of the urgent need to find a solution to the problems related to forced
displacement in Georgia,
Underlining the importance of the discussions that commenced in Geneva on
15 October 2008 and of continuing to address the issue of the voluntary, safe,
dignified and unhindered return of internally displaced persons and refugees on the
basis of internationally recognized principles and conflict -settlement practices,
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