PROTOCOL # 4 OF THE MEETING OF
THE AD HOC COMMITTEE ON FACILITATION OF THE VOLUNTEER RETURN OF REFUGEES AND
IDPS AS A RESULT OF THE GEORGIAN-OSSETIAN CONFLICT TO THE PLACES OF THEIR
FORMER PERMANENT RESIDENCE
September
30, 1998, city of
Chairman:
Machavariani
Irakli – personal representative of the President of Georgia on political
problems of national security and settlement of conflicts, head of the Georgian
side of the JCC.
Agenda of the meeting:
1.
Information of the sides on the conducted work.
2.
Organizational issues.
On Place and date of the next meeting.
I.
The floor was taken by:
From
the
From
the South-Ossetian side – Chochiev
From
the North-Ossetian side – Kachmazov, Gaboev
From
the Russian side - Korotkov
From
the mission of the OSCE - Baltov
From
the UNHCR – Andrew
The
floor was taken by: Sotieva, Korotkov, Machavariani, Kachmazov, Kublashvili,
Machabeli, Chochiev, Baltov, Kushpel, Ambalov, and Pirtskhalava.
It was decided:
1.
Information of the sides to be taken note of, claiming with satisfaction that
the meeting took place in the constructive, positive mode.
2.
To stress the positive trends on the issue of return of refugees and IDPs. In
relation with the existing problems of return to cities pf Tbilisi, Tskhinvali
and etc. to find it appropriate to organize regular consultations among the
sides and their executive bodies at the places to provide for maximum
effectiveness and improvement of mechanism of volunteer return of refugees and
IDPs.
3. Having taken note of the decision of the legislative body of the
South Ossetian side to introduce amendments into the form of application on
return of refugees and IDPs, approved by the JCC, to consider it appropriate to
use the foremerly approved form before the discussion about this issue on the
next meeting of the JCC.
4.
The sides, receiving the returning refugees and IDPs shall elaborate on
cooperation with UNHCR and OSCE, with participation of the local
administrations proposals on programs of rehabilitation and integration of the
returned. At the same time, in the prepared programs shall be reflected the
following directions:
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Legal support to the returned;
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Realization of the programs of humanitarian assistance (in the domain of
medical care, secondary education and kindergartens, social adaptation, etc.);
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Provision of land plots and agricultural farms.
5.
The Georgian and the South Ossetian sides, with a purpose of provision for
reliability of data on refugees, registered in the Republic of
North-Ossetia-Alania, to define districts and to realize their double-check of
information, provided by the refugees and also of the actual number of the
returned to the places of their former residence.
6. Drawing attention of the sides to necessity of activation of work on information support to the settlement of the conflict as a whole and the process of return of refugees, namely, approving the initiatives of the non-governmental organizations in this direction to express support to the work of the public information center and to recommend to it to spread its activities towards Vladikavkaz and also to recommend to the JCC to include the Center in the coverage of its work.
7.
In the process of filling and sending of applications of refugees and IDPs,
aspiring to return to the places of their former residence, to follow the
uniform procedure, established in compliance with the decisions of the JCC.
8.
To intensify the process of return and to keep the permanent working contacts
between the sides to provide for the regular meetings of the committee and in
any situation to avoid long (more than two months) breaks between them.
II.
The floor was taken by: Ambalov, Sotieva, Kublashvili, Machabeli, Baltov, and
Kushpel.
It
was decided:
The
sides shall in ten days present to each other changes in the membership of
their
part of Committee.
III.
The floor was taken by: Chochiev, Kublashvili, Kushpel, Kachmazov and
Machavariani.
It
was decided:
1.
The next meeting of the Committee shall take place in November of the current
year in the city of
Chairman
of the meeting
Head
of the Georgian side of the
(Archive
of the Staff of the State Minister of