10/09/2009 Monitoring
In a draft resolution adopted yesterday in Paris, PACE Monitoring Committee strongly urges the Russian authorities, before the end of the year, to give unrestricted access to EU Monitors to South Ossetia and Abkhazia, grant freedom of movement for Georgian civilians and international and humanitarian organisations over the administrative boundaries, recognise the right of return of all IDPs of this conflict and to initiate a credible investigation into alleged ethnic cleansing in South Ossetia.
The Committee deplores that – one year after the war between Georgia and Russia – little tangible progress has been achieved in addressing the consequences of the war, and that in several areas the situation has actually regressed.
The report by Luc Van den Brande (Belgium, EPP/CD) and Mátyás Eörsi (Hungary, ALDE), is due to be debated by the plenary Assembly on Tuesday 29 September.