(Tbilisi, July 16, 2003, Civil Georgia) – The parliamentary special session on July 16 adopted a decree over Abkhazia with 147 votes to1.
The decree urges the President and the executive authority to apply to the UN Security Council to enforce Chapter 7 of the UN Charter in Abkhazia, to take steps towards changing of peacekeeping operations’ mandate and prepare particular proposals over internationalization of peacekeeping operations in the conflict zone of Abkhazia.
The Parliament of Georgia still adheres to the previously adopted parliamentary decrees regarding the withdrawal of Russian peacekeeping troops deployed in the conflict zone under the CIS auspices, and expresses serious concern over non-fulfillment of these decrees by the executive authority.
Earlier today the Parliament ratified today Rome Statute on International Criminal Court. Georgian authorities hope that the ratification of the document would allow a case on genocide of ethnic Georgians in Abkhazia.
In the wake of these decisions several displaced persons from Abkhazia, which were on hunger strike in Tbilisi for two weeks demanding ratification of the Rome Statute, withdrawal of the Russian peacekeepers and enforcement of the article 7 of the UN Charter, ceased the hunger strike.
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