2010 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
Caucuses in the Caucasus: The Application of the Right of Self-Determination
Authors : Robert McCorquodale, Kristin Hausler
Published in: Conflict in the Caucasus
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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The peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia have several times spoken out at referendums in favour of independence for their republics. It is our understanding that after what has happened [with the bombardment by Georgia of] Tskhinval [in South Ossetia] and what has been planned for Abkhazia, they have the right to decide their destiny by themselves. … Considering the freely expressed will of the Ossetian and Abkhaz peoples and being guided by the provisions of the United Nations Charter, the 1970 Declaration on Principles of International Law Governing Friendly Relations between States, the CSCE Helsinki Final Act of 1975 and other fundamental international instruments, I signed Decrees on the recognition by the Russian Federation of South Ossetia’s and Abkhazia’s independence.1