Русская версияRussian 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 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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