Amendment No. 5 | Doc. 14619 | 09 October 2018

Unlimited access to member States, including “grey zones”, by Council of Europe and United Nations human rights monitoring bodies

Signatories: Ms Tamar CHUGOSHVILI, Georgia, SOC ; Ms Eka BESELIA, Georgia, SOC ; Ms Nino GOGUADZE, Georgia, EC ; Ms Sofio KATSARAVA, Georgia, SOC ; Mr Zviad KVATCHANTIRADZE, Georgia, SOC

Origin - 2018 - Fourth part-session

In the draft resolution, paragraph 4, replace the fourth sentence with the following sentence:

"It calls on the Russian Federation, exercising effective control over the occupied Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia to cooperate with the CPT and other international monitoring mechanisms."

Explanatory note

During the last years, none of the international monitoring missions had any access to the Tskhinvali region. Russia's provocative steps aim to destabilize the situation in the region and violate human rights. By granting no access to international actors, Russia intends to hide the dramatic developments on the ground.