1.Ms Heidi TAGLIAVINI is hereby appointed head of the independent international fact-finding mission on the conflict in Georgia, hereinafter ‘the fact-finding mission’, for the period from 2 December 2008 to 31 July 2009.
2.The aim of the fact-finding mission shall be to investigate the origins and the course of the conflict in Georgia, including with regard to international law(1), humanitarian law and human rights, and the accusations made in that context(2). The geographical scope and time span of the investigation will be sufficiently broad to determine all the possible causes of the conflict. The results of the investigation will be presented to the parties to the conflict, and to the Council, the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the United Nations (UN), in the form of a report.
3.The head of the fact-finding mission shall be responsible for the implementation of the fact-finding mission. She shall determine, in complete independence, the procedures and working methods of the fact-finding mission, and the content of the report referred to in paragraph 2.
Including the Helsinki Final Act.
Including allegations of war crimes.