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EU Foreign Minister discuss situation in Caucasus
05.09.2008 16:39 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ A two-day meeting of EU Foreign Ministers in Avignon
will focus on the situation in the Caucasus and hammer out details of
a planned civilian mission to Georgia.

The mission would send about 200 EU personnel to monitor compliance
with a French-brokered peace deal. It could leave as early as next
week, after French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due in Moscow for a
meeting with Russian President Medvedev on Sept. 8.

EU leaders have already warned Russia that talks slated for September
15 and 16 on a new partnership between Moscow and Brussels would be
"indefinitely postponed" if Russia failed to fully comply with the
Georgian peace agreement and left its troops in Georgia. But the EU
has stopped short of imposing threatened diplomatic sanctions on
Russia, BBC Russian reports