A/HRC/RES/49/33 Expressing serious concern at the lack of accountability for unlawful killings of Georgian citizens committed in the period from 2014 to 2020, which continues to contribute to impunity in both Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia, Expressing concern that internally displaced persons and refugees continue to be deprived of the right to return to their homes in Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia in a safe and dignified manner, Expressing serious concern that violations and abuses of human rights and fundamental freedoms of persons living therein create an additional threat of further displacement, Expressing serious concern also at the repeated denial of access to international and regional monitors, including the United Nations human rights mechanisms, to both Georgian regions by the authorities exercising effective control in those regions, Recognizing in this context the importance of and need for periodic reports of the Office of the High Commissioner for an objective and impartial assessment of the situation of human rights in both Georgian regions, 1. Requests the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to continue to provide technical assistance through the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights in Tbilisi; 2. Demands that immediate and unimpeded access be given to the Office of the High Commissioner and international and regional human rights mechanisms to Abkhazia, Georgia and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia; 3. Requests the High Commissioner to present to the Human Rights Council, in accordance with its resolution 5/1 of 18 June 2007, an oral update on the follow-up to the present resolution at its fiftieth session, and to present a written report on developments relating to and the implementation of the present resolution at its fifty-first session. 58th meeting 1 April 2022 [Adopted by a recorded vote of 19 to 6, with 20 abstentions. The voting was as follows: In favour: Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Honduras, Japan, Libya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malawi, Mexico, Montenegro, Netherlands, Paraguay, Poland, Somalia, Ukraine, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, United States of America Against: Bolivia (Plurinational State of), China, Cuba, Eritrea, Russian Federation, Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of) Abstaining: Argentina, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Côte d’Ivoire, Gabon, India, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Mauritania, Namibia, Nepal, Pakistan, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Senegal, Sudan, United Arab Emirates, Uzbekistan] 3

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