Russian troops have reportedly begun a withdrawal from Georgia proper, within a deadline agreed with the European Union.
News agency correspondents say 70 Russian troops have left a camp near Georgia's strategic Black Sea port of Poti. Convoys have also been sighted pulling back toward the breakaway region of Abkhazia. Since early August Russia has maintained two dozen posts deep inside Georgia after it repelled an attempt by Georgia's government to militarily retake another breakaway pro-Russian region, South Ossetia. Early this week, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, mediating on behalf of the EU, secured a pullback promise from Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The deal allows for the deployment of 200 Seven Czechs leave Georgia, no Czech in area of fighting-official ...
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Russia warns Georgia over troop detention ... EU observers. Russia has said it will retain several thousand troops in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Georgia is a key transist region for oil and gas deliveries to the West.
(Deutsche Welle)
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