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Georgia: Update to GGA29255.E of 27 April 1998 on the treatment of the Ossetians outside South Ossetia, particularly by the police and nationalist groups, and the state protection available to them (May 1998 - April 1999)

Publisher Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada
Author Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada
Publication Date 1 April 1999
Citation / Document Symbol GGA31723.E
Cite as Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Georgia: Update to GGA29255.E of 27 April 1998 on the treatment of the Ossetians outside South Ossetia, particularly by the police and nationalist groups, and the state protection available to them (May 1998 - April 1999), 1 April 1999, GGA31723.E, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ab9098.html [accessed 26 May 2023]
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No information on the treatment of Ossetians outside South Ossetia in Georgia, nor on the state protection available to them, could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate.

This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints. This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim to refugee status or asylum. Please find below the list of sources consulted in researching this Information Request.

Sources Consulted

Cultural Survival [Cambridge, Mass.]. Winter 1998 - Fall 1998.

Electronic sources: IRB databases, Internet, NEXIS/LEXIS, REFWORLD, WNC.

Nationalities Papers [Abingdon, Oxfordshire, UK.]. December 1997 - December 1998.

Resource Centre country file on Georgia. January 1998 - March 1999.

Transitions [Prague]. January 1998 - February 1999.

Unsuccessful attempts to contact oral sources.

Copyright notice: This document is published with the permission of the copyright holder and producer Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (IRB). The original version of this document may be found on the offical website of the IRB at http://www.irb-cisr.gc.ca/en/. Documents earlier than 2003 may be found only on Refworld.

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