The United Nations General Assembly has adopted a resolution on the status of internally displaced persons (IDPs) and refugees from Abkhazia and the Tskhinvali Region/South Ossetia, Georgia.

Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported this development, confirming that 107 countries voted in favour of the resolution at the 2026 session.

Speaking from the rostrum during the Assembly, Georgia’s Ambassador to the UN, Davit Bakradze, stated that the primary purpose of the draft resolution remains unchanged: to address the dire humanitarian plight of refugees and internally displaced persons who were forced to abandon their homes in the wake of waves of ethnic cleansing.

“It is a great honour to address the General Assembly once again on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of internally displaced persons and refugees who were forcibly driven from Georgia’s occupied regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. I stand before you today to receive the Assembly’s valued support for this resolution. Its central purpose remains what it has always been: to shine a light on the grave humanitarian situation facing refugees and displaced persons who were compelled to flee their homes as a result of waves of ethnic cleansing that began in the 1990s and reached their terrible culmination with the full-scale military aggression against Georgia in August 2008.

Since this resolution was first adopted in 2008, it has commanded ever-growing support from the international community, as reflected in the steadily increasing number of votes in favour and co-sponsoring nations. Today, 67 UN member states from every region of the world are co-sponsors of this draft resolution, which is a clear and powerful testament to our shared commitment to universally recognised principles. Above all, these are the right of return, the protection of property rights, and the call for a peaceful resolution to the conflict,” Ambassador Bakradze declared.