After meeting at the Kremlin on Tuesday, the presidents of France and Russia announced the results of their discussions on the crisis in Georgia.
While Russian President Dmitry Medvedev declared that international negotiations will be needed to assure peace in the Caucasus, EU president Nicolas Sarkozy called for a return to the pre-conflict status quo. In the meantime, the French President has arrived in Tbilisi to continue his peace talks with the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said earlier in Washington that the US reaffirms its clear support for Georgia's sovereignty. At the same time, in Brussels, NATO renewed its pledge to accept Georgia as a full member of the western alliance, despite the fighting with Russia over the breakaway region of South Ossetia.
(Deutsche Welle)
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