A/RES/76/267
United Nations
General Assembly
Distr.: General
14 June 2022
Seventy-sixth session
Agenda item 36
Protracted conflicts in the GUAM area and their
implications for international peace, security
and development
Resolution adopted by the General Assembly
on 8 June 2022
[without reference to a Main Committee (A/76/L.62 and A/76/L.62/Add.1)]
76/267.
Status of internally displaced persons and refugees from Abkhazia,
Georgia, and the Tskhinvali region/South Ossetia, Georgia
The General Assembly,
Recalling all its relevant resolutions on the protection of and assistance to
internally displaced persons, including its resolutions 62/153 of 18 December 2007,
62/249 of 15 May 2008, 63/307 of 9 September 2009, 64/162 of 18 December 2009,
64/296 of 7 September 2010, 65/287 of 29 June 2011, 66/165 of 19 December 2011,
66/283 of 3 July 2012, 67/268 of 13 June 2013, 68/180 of 18 December 2013, 68/274
of 5 June 2014, 69/286 of 3 June 2015, 70/165 of 17 December 2015, 70/265 of 7 June
2016, 71/290 of 1 June 2017, 72/182 of 19 December 2017, 72/280 of 12 June 2018,
73/298 of 4 June 2019, 74/160 of 18 December 2019, 74/300 of 3 September 2020,
75/285 of 16 June 2021 and 76/167 of 16 December 2021,
Recalling also all relevant Security Council resolutions on Georgia relating to
the need for all parties to work towards a comprehensive peace and the return of
internally displaced persons and refugees to their places of origin, and stressing the
importance of their full and timely implementation,
Recognizing the Guiding Principles on Internal Displacement 1 as the key
international framework for the protection of internally displaced persons,
Concerned by forced demographic changes resulting from the conflicts in
Georgia,
Concerned also by the humanitarian situation caused by armed conflict in
August 2008, which resulted in the further forced displacement of civilians,
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