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2009-06-15
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2010-06-16
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  1. “I would ask everyone here to help us defend the rights of our children, including their right to a peaceful and prosperous future. I should also like to take this opportunity to commend the tireless efforts undertaken by UNICEF in my country, including its activities in Abkhazia. In conclusion, I would like to assure the Council that my Government stands ready to continue to cooperate with the entire United Nations family to defend the interests of all children affected by the August war and the ongoing foreign military occupation.”

    2010-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6341Resumption1 (2010) · source

  2. “In reference to another situation, the report of the Secretary-General emphasizes "humanitarian access in general has vastly deteriorated during the year". One could not better describe the practice of blocking access for humanitarian aid and international humanitarian actors to the occupied Tskhinvali region/ South Ossetia, which has been in effect since August 2008. This is a clear violation of the principles of international law; of paragraph 3 of the six-point ceasefire agreement of 12 August 2008 brokered by the European Union; and of paragraph 4 of the General Assembly resolution 63/307 on the status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia, Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia, of 9 September 2009.”

    2010-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6341Resumption1 (2010) · source

  3. “Many know the details of these cases already. Every time I come here to address the Council, I am amazed that I can list such examples in the twenty-first century. In Tskhinvali in December 2009, six children between 12 and 16 years of age were detained and charged with "terrorist activities". Only after active intervention by the international community were these children released. This incident is not an exception to the rule, but rather the reality that is faced every day. There might not be what we qualify here as an active conflict, but our citizens battle every day for their basic rights and freedoms. A first step towards addressing this problem would be to allow unhindered humanitarian access, which could protect and assist those affected by armed conflicts - children, first and foremost.”

    2010-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6341Resumption1 (2010) · source

  4. “Our children have been given new textbooks printed in another country and approved by the education ministry of that country - textbooks their parents and community leaders have no ability to review. Children are no longer allowed to attend schools on the other side of the artificially imposed administrative boundary lines, creating divisions and isolation where before there was community and shared learning and experiences. Georgian citizens are being forced to learn the Russian language and given no choice about their preference or their future. They are told that their identity, their language and their culture are lesser than those of the occupying force. There are many documented cases to which we could refer to illustrate these charges and flesh out a picture of how civilian life is being supplanted by the military occupation.”

    2010-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6341Resumption1 (2010) · source

  5. “Georgian children have suffered in both these regions, but the Secretary-General's report on children and armed conflict does not cover that part of the world this year, and so I felt it important to remind the Council of the humanitarian aspects of this situation. While the active conflict is considered to be over, the problems that we discussed last year remain and, in certain respects, have even worsened. The demolition of school buildings, the denial of the right to receive education in the native language, the forcible conscription of young men and sometimes teenagers, and hindered access to education and opportunity are but a few of the problems facing the young people of these regions while under foreign occupation.”

    2010-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6341Resumption1 (2010) · source

  6. “As we have learned from the report of the Secretary-General's before us, the haunting reality remains that children are being brutally affected by military conflicts around the world. Any conflict in which children suffer directly from violence and brutality, or secondarily from their consequences, requires much closer attention from the international community. Over the past several months, Member States have had an opportunity to address the protection of civilians at various open debates here in this Chamber. As many present know, this is an issue of great concern to Georgia. The Council heard an update on the two occupied regions of my country, Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region, also known as South Ossetia.”

    2010-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6341Resumption1 (2010) · source

  7. “I thank you, Sir, for having convened this open debate on the important topic of children and armed conflict. At the outset, I should like to commend the Secretary-General for his ninth report on this issue (S/2010/181). I should also like to express our gratitude to the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for her comprehensive presentation. My delegation supports the statement made on behalf of the European Union. Since 1999, the issue of children and armed conflict has been a permanent fixture on the agenda of the Security Council. Over the past decade, the Council has adopted seven resolutions on this matter, but we all know that these measures are not enough.”

    2010-06-16 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6341Resumption1 (2010) · source

  8. “We are convinced that to better address these needs, we have to substantially enhance the presence of the relevant United Nations agencies - such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs and the United Nations Development Programme, among others - inside the occupied territories of Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region of South Ossetia. My Government joins the call to take this opportunity to reinvigorate our joint commitment to making the protection of civilians a reality for all those caught up in conflict.”

    2009-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6151Resumption1 (2009) · source

  9. “It should be reiterated that the Government of Georgia, as well as the entire international community, regrets the termination of the activities of the United Nations Observation Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG), due to the single - I emphasize single - Russian vote cast against it. This constitutes a clear violation of paragraph 4 of resolution 1866 (2009), which calls for "facilitating, and refraining from placing any impediment to, humanitarian assistance". The termination of UNOMIG's mandate was meant to reduce the level of protection for human rights in occupied Abkhazia. It is also aimed at creating yet another obstacle to the safe and dignified return of internally displaced persons and refugees to their homes, in contravention of a number of resolutions of this Council and the General Assembly.”

    2009-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6151Resumption1 (2009) · source

  10. “This policy represents yet another breach of the principles of international humanitarian law, as well as of paragraph 3 of the European Union- brokered ceasefire agreement. A number of international organizations have protested against that policy. The blockade turns the occupied territories into a black hole where people are deprived of their basic rights and humanitarian aid is simply not allowed. No one will be surprised to learn that it is with the same lack of constructiveness that Russia has refused even to consider a compromise solution to the problem that envisaged allowing double and simultaneous access to the territories from both the northern and southern directions.”

    2009-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6151Resumption1 (2009) · source

  11. “This policy represents a third wave of ethnic cleansing, with the first two carried out in another occupied Georgian province, Abkhazia, where 400,000 citizens of the pre-war population of 550,000 were either killed or expelled - including, most recently, 3,000 men and women in the past year. We take note of the report of the Secretary- General on the issue. Here, I would like to draw the Council's attention to the issue of the humanitarian blockade of the occupied territories, and to provide an update on the situation on the ground. It is a fact that the Russian occupying forces have been completely blocking access of humanitarian aid to the occupied territories, requiring humanitarian missions to enter the Tskhinvali region of South Ossetia exclusively Via Russian territory.”

    2009-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6151Resumption1 (2009) · source

  12. “Satellite images obtained by the Operational Satellite Applications Programme of the United Nations Institute for Training and Research confirm the deliberate and targeted destruction of dozens of villages inside the territory occupied by regular Russian forces and proxy militia. For many of my displaced compatriots, the horror of ethnic cleansing continues as we speak. As a matter of policy, tens of thousands of them are being prevented from returning to their homes or what is left of their homes in the occupied territories. As Mr. Walter Kal'in, the Representative of the Secretary- General on the human rights of internally displaced persons, puts it in his report: "An estimated 37,600 will not be able to return in the foreseeable future" (A/HRC/10/13/Add.2, para. 58).”

    2009-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6151Resumption1 (2009) · source

  13. “The protection of civilians in armed conflicts is among the priorities of the Human Security Network, and I would like to thank the Turkish presidency for the organization of this important debate. In recent years, the international community has kept the issue firmly on its agenda. The delegation of Georgia fully associates itself with the statement made by the Czech presidency of the European Union. Last year, the citizens of my country suffered a massive foreign military invasion, followed by the occupation of up to 20 per cent of our territory. This war took the lives of 600 citizens of Georgia, most of them civilians. Over 130,000 were forced from their homes in a move that was branded as ethnic cleansing by a major European intergovernmental body.”

    2009-06-26 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6151Resumption1 (2009) · source

  14. “They do not expect the international community to give up on its efforts to restore a measure of justice. What they expect are new and even more energetic efforts on the part of the whole international community that would eventually result in their dignified and secure return to their homes.”

    2009-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6143 (2009) · source

  15. “Through that non-constructive behaviour, Russia continues to breach the ceasefire agreement of 12 August 2008, as well as the diplomatic measures of 8 September 2008 moderated by the then French presidency of the European Union. The facts are clear. Russia is not honouring the commitments it undertook under legally binding international agreements. Russia has gone further into self-imposed isolation on the fundamental issues of respecting other countries' sovereignty and territorial integrity, thus widening the gap between itself and the rest of the world. Today, 400,000 men, women and children - the survivors of several waves of ethnic cleansing, those whose right to return to their homes has been stubbornly denied by Russia and its proxies - are looking to the international community with hope.”

    2009-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6143 (2009) · source

  16. “The role of the European Union monitoring mission in that respect is very important. The bottom line with respect to the termination of UNOMIG is this: There will be fewer opportunities to provide unbiased information on either the security situation or human rights violations. The termination of UNOMIG also means that it will be more difficult to witness or document any build-up or movement of Russian troops in the region. It also should be noted that the Secretary-General's report (S/2009/254) of 18 May 2009 clearly confirmed that Russia is in complete violation of resolution 1866 (2009). It is evident that Russia does not wish to have any witnesses who can confirm its disrespect and breach of international obligations.”

    2009-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6143 (2009) · source

  17. “Just last month, Russia also vetoed the continuation of the mission of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. I would like to express my gratitude to the men and women of UNOMIG for their hard work in protecting the human rights of the remaining population of the occupied region of Georgia. Their good work has consistently been undermined by Russian military forces and Moscow's proxy administration on the ground. On behalf of my Government, I would also like to thank those countries friends of Georgia, in the Council and beyond, that have worked hard to continue the Mission. We are grateful for their determined efforts and for their support of our sovereignty and territorial integrity. We will continue to work with them to ensure security throughout the country.”

    2009-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6143 (2009) · source

  18. “The Government of Georgia deeply regrets the termination of the United Nations Observer Mission in Georgia (UNOMIG) due to the unconstructive position of the Russian Government. The Mission has long played an important role in bringing a level of security and stability to the Abkhazia region of Georgia. The fact that it is being terminated by virtue of a single country's opposition is of great concern to my Government and should weigh heavily on this institution. It is important to keep in mind that Russia's rejection of this Mission is not an isolated act, but rather a part of a larger strategy - one that began even before Russia's invasion last summer. It seems determined to roll back the international community's presence in Georgia.”

    2009-06-15 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.6143 (2009) · source