Doc. 7672
2 October 1996

MOTION FOR ON ORDER on the situation in Abkhazia, Georgia

presented by Mr SEITLINGER and others

1.       The Parliamentary Assembly welcomes the granting of special guest status to Georgia on 28 May 1996.

2.       Notes with satisfaction the end of the armed conflict which took place in the country in 1992-1993, resulting in the exile of some 300 000 refugees from the Abkhazian region of Georgia.

3.       The Assembly regrets the failure of negociations on the settlement of the conflict, under the auspices of the United Nations and Russia among others.

4.       Declares its preoccupation with the decision of the separatist authorities controlling Abkhazia to organise legislative elections exclusively in the Abkhazian region, since these elections could in no case express the wishes of the entire population concerned.

5.       For this reason the Assembly invites its Committee on Relations with European Non-Member Countries to report back on the development of the situation in Georgia and especially in the Abkhazian region.

Signed:

(see overleaf)

Signed:

Seitlinger, France, EPP

Atkinson, United Kingdom, EDG

Büchel, Liechtenstein, EPP

Dundee, United Kingdom, EDG

Durrieu, France, SOC

Fenech, Malta, EPP

Figel, Slovakia, EPP

Gabrielescu, Romania, EPP

Lucyga, Germany, SOC

Mitchell, Ireland, EPP

Olrich, Iceland, EDG

Ramirez Péry, Spain, EPP

Scheibner, Austria, -

Severinsen, Denmark, LDR

Solé Tura, Spain, SOC

*       SOC : Socialist Group

      EPP : Group of the European People's Party

      EDG : European Democratic Group

      LDR : Liberal, Democratic and Reformers Group

      UEL : Group of the Unified European Left