Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili claims that Russian attacks on his country are continuing even after Moscow ordered an end to military action.
Russian officials rejected the claim as a provocation and insisted that all operations in Georgia had halted as was declared by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev earlier on Tuesday. There is no independent confirmation of either assertion. French President Nicolas Sarkozy travelled to Moscow to present an EU-backed peace plan that envisages an immediate truce, respect for Georgia's territorial integrity and Kremlin requests NATO meeting over Georgian crisis ...
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UN report says Russia shot down Georgian spy plane ... a return to the status quo that prevailed before Georgian troops attacked South Ossetia last week. Meanwhile Saakashvili said that Georgia would quit the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and urged Ukraine to follow suit.
(Deutsche Welle)
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