Русская версияRussian President Dmitry Medvedev says his country's forces will
pull out of most of Georgia by Friday.
In a telephone call with his
French counterpart, Nicolas Sarkozy, Medvedev also said that 500
soldiers would be re-deployed as peacekeepers on both sides of
South Ossetia's regional border in compliance with the
French-brokered ceasefire. This came after NATO Secretary-General
Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said that the Western military alliance was
temporarily freezing regular contacts with Moscow. De Hoop Scheffer
was speaking following and emergency meeting of NATO foreign
ministers in Brussels, which was called to discuss how to respond
to the crisis in Georgia. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei
Lavrov has responded by accusing NATO of pursuing anti-Moscow
policies and supporting an aggressive Georgia. In a televised
address, Lavrov insisted that Russia was not occupying Georgia and
had no plans to annex the separatist regions of South Ossetia and
Abkhazia.
(Deutsche Welle)
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