A/HRC/RES/57/33 United Nations General Assembly Distr.: General 14 October 2024 Original: English Human Rights Council Fifty-seventh session 9 September–11 October 2024 Agenda item 10 Technical assistance and capacity-building Resolution adopted by the Human Rights Council on 11 October 2024 57/33. Cooperation with Georgia The Human Rights Council, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, Reaffirming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other relevant international human rights instruments, Bearing in mind relevant regional instruments, in particular the European Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (European Convention on Human Rights), Taking note of the judgment of 21 January 2021 of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Georgia v. Russia (II), in which the Court established the responsibility of the Russian Federation for grave human rights violations during the period of occupation of Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia, following the August 2008 war, as the State exercising effective control over those regions, Taking note also of the judgment of 7 March 2023 of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Mamasakhlisi and Others v. Georgia and Russia, in which the Court once again confirmed the effective control of the Russian Federation over Abkhazia, Georgia, before the war between the Russian Federation and Georgia in August 2008 and its full responsibility for human rights violations in the region, Taking note further of the judgment of 28 April 2023 of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Georgia v. Russia (II) (just satisfaction), in which the Court ordered the Russian Federation to pay compensation to Georgian citizens who had suffered in connection with the armed conflict between Georgia and the Russian Federation in August 2008, Taking note of the judgment of 9 April 2024 of the European Court of Human Rights in the case Georgia v. Russia (IV), in which the Court confirmed violations of the European Convention on Human Rights due to unlawful “borderization” by the Russian Federation, including of the right to life, the prohibition of torture or inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, the right to liberty and security, the right to respect for private and family life, the right to protection of property, the right to education and the right to freedom of movement, Acknowledging the conclusion of the investigation phase into the situation in Georgia by the International Criminal Court in 2022, which resulted in the issuance of arrest warrants for war crimes committed against civilians perceived to be ethnically Georgian from 1 July GE.24-18729 (E)