United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is on her way to Georgia, where she will urge Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to sign a six-point peace deal brokered by France.
Rice held talks on Thursday with French President Nicolas Sarkozy about the peace deal, which Sarkozy and his Russian counterpart Dmitri Medvedev reached in Moscow on Tuesday. Rice's trip comes following remarks by US Defence Secretary Robert Georgia calls South Ossetia ceasefire, offers talks to Russia ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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