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]
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