South Ossetia is ready to have Georgian refugees from the August 2008 war to leave the Leningor region of South Ossetia and live in Georgia under UNHCR supervision, the South Ossetian delegation at the Geneva discussions on Transcaucasian security said yesterday, RIA Novosti reports.
The declaration states that Georgians living in the Leningor region were threatened by the Georgian authorities to leave their houses and move to Georgia, though there were no military operations in the Leningor region.
The document says that the issue concerns several thousand Georgians. They are currently living in the Georgian village of Tserovani in housing that the USA and EU quickly built for them.
The South Ossetian delegation said that the housing and property of the refugees were untouched, including all the education and social infrastructure.
Concerning the UN resolution on refugees adopted in September, the declaration states that 20 years have passed since Georgia forced out over 100,000 Ossetians to leave their housing and property in Georgia.
Not a single person out of the 100,000 was returned or received compensation. This causes bewilderment as to why the UN General Assembly is so concerned only with ethnic Georgian's in South Ossetia who have been forced to move.
