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 Georgia welcomed a resolution passed by the NATO Parliamentary Assembly on November 16 in particular the part of the document, which refers to Abkhazia and South Ossetia as "occupied territories".

The NATO Parliamentary Assembly, which unites lawmakers from the alliance member states and associate delegates from NATO partner countries, including from Georgia and Russia, adopted at its session in Warsaw on November 16 a non-binding resolution on the situation in Georgia.

The resolution says that the Assembly is "deeply concerned by the humanitarian situation in Georgia’s occupied territories" and "urges" Moscow, as well as Sokhumi and Tskhinvali "to reverse the results of what has been described as ethnic cleansing by the Independent International Fact-Finding Mission on the Conflict in Georgia as well as by other international documents."

These two issues - mentioning of "occupied territories" and "ethnic cleansing" - were the focus of the Georgian senior officials while praising the resolution. President Saakashvili said just few hours before the document was passed, that Russia was sparing no efforts to lobby against mentioning of these issues in the resolution.