The Permanent Representative of Georgia to the UN Office and other international organizations in Geneva, Victor Dolidze, spoke about the close cooperation between the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Georgia at the debate held within the framework of the 37th session of the UN Human Rights Council.

According to the Georgian Foreign Ministry, he stressed the situation in the occupied Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali region, as well as the death of Archil Tutunashvili in Tskhinvali.

Within the framework of the meeting, the EU, the US, Azerbaijan, the United Kingdom, Estonia, Poland, Latvia, Lithuania and Finland made statements about Georgia, in which the delegations unanimously supported Georgia’s sovereignty and territorial integrity within its internationally recognized borders.

The delegations welcomed Georgia’s cooperation with the Office of the High Commissioner and expressed concern over the fact that representatives of the Office is not allowed to enter occupied Abkhazia and Tskhinvali regions.

They emphasized the importance of international human rights monitoring in Abkhazia and “South Ossetia” and called on the country exercising effective control to let the monitoring mechanisms to work in the breakaway regions of Georgia.