PROTOCOL OF THE MEETING OF
THE WORKING GROUP ON THE SETTLEMENT OF PROBLEMS OF THE REFUGEES AND THE IDPS AS
A RESULT OF THE GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT
City
of Tbilisi, February 06-07, 1997.
Agenda
of the meeting:
Discussion of the draft regulations of the volunteer
return of refugees and IDPs as a result of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict to
the places of their former permanent residence.
1.
The participants of the meeting unanimously accepted the proposal on
participation of the representatives of the UNHCR and its cooperating
non-governmental organizations in the work of the Working Group.
2.
The participants of the meeting propose to the JCC to discuss and to approve the
agreed draft of regulations of the volunteer return of refugees and IDPs as a result of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict
to the places of their former permanent
residence.
3. To recommend to the JCC to create a permanent
acting body, composed of the representatives of the sides and endowed by the
JCC with the respective competencies, with the purpose to coordinate the
efforts of the sides on the realization of the given Regulations.
To assign to the Working Group to elaborate
Statute, regulating activities of the mentioned body and to present it for the
approval of the JCC. The sides shall define personal composition of their members in the
created body.
4. The Working Group, with a purpose of the
organized process of return of refugees and IDPs and creating for them the guarantees
of security, raises a question on improvement of interaction of Joint
Peacekeeping Forces with the Law Enforcement Bodies of the sides in the places
of the return of refugees and IDPs in the conflict zone.
5. To recommend to JCC to appeal to the
leadership of the sides to provide
assistance to the work of the permanent acting body of the JCC in the
realization of the process of return of the refugees and IDPs, taking into
account the principle of parallelism and mutual interests of the sides, with
systematic exchange of the necessary information between them.
6. To appeal to the UNHCR and other
international humanitarian organizations to put forth maximum efforts for
obtaining from the International Community resources, which are necessary for
the settlement of the refugees and IDPs’ problems, at the same time periodically
informing JCC and its permanent acting body about the programs of provided assistance.
At
the same time, UNHCR appeals to the working group to raise before the JCC the
issue of necessity of adoption of a decision, directed towards providing security
guarantees for the staff of UNHCR and other international humanitarian
organizations, giving free access to the returning persons and establishment of
simplified procedure for crossing the border.
7.
The working group determines, during the process of return of the refugees and
IDPs, purposefulness of introduction of amendments and additions to the
mentioned Regulations and recommends necessary proposals for the discussion at
the JCC.
Chairman
(
On
behalf of the Georgian side (signed)
On
behalf of the South-Ossetian side (signed)
On
behalf of the Russian side (signed)
On
behalf of the North-Ossetian side (signed)
With
participation of the OSCE (signed)
On
behalf of the UNHCR (signed)
(Archive
of the Staff of the State Minister of