Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has ruled out allowing European Union observers into Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
Lavrov was speaking at a news conference in Moscow just two days after French President Nicolas Sarkozy brokered a deal to Russia wants quick end to Georgia crisis: Lavrov ...
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Czech PM signs agreement on Czech accession to ESA ... deploy 200 EU observers to monitor the Russian withdrawal from Georgia-proper. Earlier, Moscow said it would deploy 7,600 troops to the separatist regions, to deter Tbilisi from trying to re-take control of them. Meanwhile, EU foreign policy co-ordinator Javier Solana has told the European Parliament that where the observers would be sent had not actually been discussed during the talks in Moscow. But he said that access to South Ossetia and Abkhazia was in the spirit of the agreement.
(Deutsche Welle)
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