OCHA Situation Report No. 16
Georgia
30 September 2008


Source:
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs

1.0 General Humanitarian Overview in Georgia - The occurrence of house 
burnings and lootings by South Ossetians seems to have reduced in the 
Russian controlled areas North of Gori in recent days. There are still 
reports of villagers spending the night in fields due to fear of attacks. 
Also the concerns of the local population regarding the presence of 
explosive remnants of war are hindering access to fields and property.

- While humanitarian access to the Russian controlled areas North of Gori 
has improved in the last two weeks, South Ossetia remains out of reach for 
all humanitarian actors except ICRC.

- The Government of Georgia has shared plans with the international 
community regarding the construction of 4,496 houses in Gori, Mtskheta, 
Kaspi and Kareli for IDPs who will not return in the medium term. The 
construction of these housing units will partly be funded by bilateral 
donors. The plan is to provide houses at 60m2 each including 
infrastructure and internal equipment.

- On 30 September, Javier Solana, the EU High Representative for Common 
Foreign and Security Policy visited the newly-deployed EU Monitors in Gori 
and was given a briefing on the Gori tented camp by UNHCR.

- The European Union Monitoring Mission mandated by the ceasefire 
agreement is preparing the deployment of 350 international monitors, with 
200 of them to be deployed by 1 October.

- The draft of the Flash Appeal revision has been finalised and will now 
be circulated with the appealing organisations' Headquarters. The Flash 
Appeal revision is scheduled to be finalised by Friday, 3 October, after 
the Inter-Agency Standing Committee at headquarter level had two days to 
comment.

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