French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to withdraw his country's forces from western Georgia.
Russian forces have retreated from the central Georgian city of Gori, but Moscow still controls access to cities in western Georgia and Abkhazia. Acting as chair of the European Union, Sarkozy phoned Medvedev and urged him to pull back Russian forces from a key road linking the port city of Poti to Senaki. Russia says the remaining troops are peacekeepers needed to avert further bloodshed and to protect the people of Georgia's separatist provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The United States German Ex-Chancellor Schroeder Blames Saakashvili for Conflict ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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