Russian President Dmitry Medvedev says his country's forces will pull out of most of Georgia by the weekend.
However, in a telephone call with his French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, Medvedev said 500 soldiers would remain as peacekeepers. A Russian military official said Russian troops would maintain a buffer zone around Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. There is still no evidence of a large-scale Russian withdrawal from Georgia. A spokesperson Solzhenitsyn due to be laid to rest ...
Medvedev worried by tension with West ... for German Chancellor Angela Merkel called the situation "very unsatisfactory". Earlier, Russia's ambassador to the United Nations rejected a draft Security Council resolution demanding an immediate pullout, saying it didn't reflect the principles of a French brokered ceasefire.
(Deutsche Welle)
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