United Nations
A/RES/64/296
General Assembly
Distr.: General
13 October 2010
Sixty-fourth session
Agenda item 14
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 7 September 2010
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/64/L.62)]
64/296. 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 and 64/162 of 18 December
2009,
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,
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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,
Taking note of the report of the Secretary-General concerning the
implementation of resolution 63/307, 2
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