Enclosure to Annex 2 of Protocol #5 of the JCC Session
dated July 19, 1995 Tbilisi
On
Widening the Scope of Activities of Economic Workgroup of the JCC with regard
to the Territories that were involved in the Georgian-Ossetian Conflict
(OSCE – D. Boden)
Noting the
technical and financial difficulties hampering the activities of the economic
workgroup of the JCC with regard to implementing the agreement of Georgia and
Russia on rehabilitation of the economy in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian
conflict concluded on February 1993,
Recognizing the
obvious poor economic condition of the population in the zone of conflict
caused by sharp reduction of the economic activities, in general, and, to
certain extent, breaking of the previous economic contacts with the nearest
regions,
Taking into
consideration the fact that there is no comprehensive plan anticipating the
beginning of the economic recovery of the region, including private sector and
private capital,
Assuming that the
absence of political resolution of the conflict should not hamper the recovery
of the economic activities in the zone of conflict, but vice versa, the
economic recovery could have pushed the parties to the conflict to political
progress,
Expressing the
confidence that under the appropriate circumstances it would be possible to
persuade separate governments and international organizations to allocate part
of their resources for the purpose of rendering assistance in the process of
recovery,
the JCC resolves that
the economic workgroup of the JCC should:
1. After studying
the situation I the
zone of conflict and in the nearest regions, present to the JCC a repot on
respective economic and social situation in the region, including the survey of
the problem related to the development of the infrastructure (roads, rail road,
power transmission lines and natural gas supply, house-building),
rehabilitation of which may become the precondition of the overall economic
recovery.
2. Define the cost
of works on liquidation of the above-noted deficiencies and the priorities for
the rehabilitation of various objects of infrastructure in the future action
plan.
3. Define main
problems of the agricultural production in the zone of conflict and nearest
regions, such as lack of seeds, fertilizers, equipments, technical information,
modern organizational structures, initial capital loans, and develop a plan for
resolving the above-noted problems in 1996-97 agricultural years.
4. Consider the
most perspective possibilities for rehabilitating contacts between
entrepreneurial institutions of all types in the region and other enterprises
with which they had business contacts in the past in the form of buyers,
suppliers, sellers, joint ventures, etc., and recommend concrete measures for
achieving the goal
through attracting the government and private sectors of North Ossetia, Russia,
Georgia and South Ossetia.
5. Study the new
spheres of the economic activities in the regions, which are perspective from
the viewpoint of the economic recovery, or, were developed or non-developed at
all, during the period of existence of the
6. Study, for these
purposes, the possibilities of attracting funds and resources from the
governments of the parties to the conflict, as well as from potential foreign
donors, agencies and banks, related to the UN, such as the World Bank, the
European institutions such as the EBRD in London and the European Union.; as
well as sources of financing from permanent program on national aid and world
capital markets.
7. Prepare the list
of specific projects, by indicating the priorities and importance, including
the procedure of implementing each project, and their approval by the JCC and
potential donors.
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