June 4, 2002

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Ten years after so-called ethnic conflicts that plagued the region after the collapse of the Soviet Union, still more than one million people remain displaced in the South Caucasus. Many of them live in refugee camps in dramatic conditions, in full dependence on insufficient humanitarian assistance with no prospects for the future.

Although it is clear that a final solution of the refugee situation, and in particular the possibility for the return to home areas, depends on a peace settlement of the various conflicts, certain issues of humanitarian nature should be resolved irrespective of political considerations.