Since 2009, Georgia has annually submitted a draft resolution on refugees and displaced persons from Abkhazia and South Ossetia to the UN General Assembly, the press service of the RSO Foreign Ministry reports.
“By repeating the text of the document with technical changes from year to year, Georgia is trying to impose on the world community the one-sided, politicized and distorted vision of the refugee problem in order to support its illegitimate territorial claims,” the statement says.
As added by the department, the text of the next Resolution on refugees and displaced persons, submitted by Georgia in June 2025, also practically does not differ from those adopted earlier.
"The authors of the document are trying to create a one-sided, politicized and distorted vision of the refugee problem and at the same time to make absolutely illegitimate territorial claims to the neighboring states - the Republic of Abkhazia and the Republic of South Ossetia," the Foreign Ministry reports.
At the same time, the resolutions are silent about the fact that the emergence of refugees and displaced persons was a direct consequence of the wars unleashed by Georgia against South Ossetia and Abkhazia, as well as the fact that out of more than 100 thousand Ossetians , fled ethnic cleansing from the territory of Georgia and found refuge in South Ossetia and Russia, only a few managed to return.
"It is silent about the fact that the governments of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, on their own initiative, returned tens of thousands of Georgian refugees to their places of permanent residence. The text of the resolution submitted by Georgia not only does not take into account the current political realities, in particular the fact that South Ossetia and Abkhazia are the independent states, but also proves Georgia's complete lack of desire to find a solution to complex humanitarian problems," the Foreign Ministry said.
The Foreign Ministry noted that "the resolution Georgia has been pushing through year after year has not brought a single step closer to a real solution to the problems of refugees and the IDPs."
"Moreover, the crude and persistent politicization of the refugee problem by Georgia and a group of its "friends" at the international venues, to which representatives of South Ossetia and Abkhazia are denied access, continues to hinder its discussion in the format of International Discussions on Security in Transcaucasia," the statement of the Foreign Ministry reads.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia insist on their right to participate in the discussion of this issue at the UN General Assembly, the Foreign Ministry has concluded.
