Schwarzenberg said the reconstruction plan should concern the whole territory Russia Retains Control Over Georgian Port as Tensions Increase ...
Czech PM to attend Beijing Olympics ... of Georgia, including the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhasia whose independence Russia officially recognised on Tuesday. Russian troops entered Georgia in early August after Tbilisi tried to dominate its province South Ossetia by force. Schwarzenberg said Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek received a relatively open mandate for the summit to be organised on Monday on the initiative of French President Nicolas Sarkozy. Topolanek recalled that the Czech Republic has proposed a donor conference. He said he believed the summit would discuss long-term reconstruction of Georgia.
The Czech Republic wants to earmark 150 million crowns for it in the next three years. Topolanek said the summit would not have any problem with humanitarian aid to Georgia, but with its territorial integrity. Topolanek pointed that the EU countries agree that Russia should be criticised for its invasion of Georgia, but they have not reached agreement on how far the criticism should go. Topolanek said the Czech Republic strongly supports the deployment of a monitoring mission in Georgia. He said further steps towards an international observer mission or peacekeeping forces should be taken after agreement with the U.N. and OSCE. However, Topolanek said these considerations very preliminary and did not depend merely on the European Union.
(Ceske Noviny)
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