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Politic / 11.10.2008 12:48 EU says Russia hasn't fulfilled cease-fire in full
Russia has failed to meet all its obligations under a European Union-brokered cease-fire that ended a war with Georgia, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said.
Russia has failed to meet all its obligations under a European Union-brokered cease-fire that ended a war with Georgia, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said. "Not everything has been achieved,'' Kouchner said today in the Black Sea port city of Batumi after talks with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. "The Russians have left most of the territory, but they remain in Akhalgori and Perevi,'' two towns in the separatist region of South Ossetia. "That's why we'll continue talks in Geneva.'' President Dmitry Medvedev said Russia has done everything required of it. "We have met all the obligations we accepted in the first document, the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan, and the second document, which was agreed on not long ago in Moscow,'' he told reporters today in the Kyrgyz capital Bishkek. President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, brokered the cease-fire that ended Russia's five-day war with Georgia over South Ossetia in August. A copy of the cease-fire accord provided by Saakashvili's press service states that Russian forces must return to their pre-conflict positions. Russia sent about 10,000 soldiers into Georgia during the fighting, according to state-run news service RIA Novosti.
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