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European Union group due in Moscow to urge pullback of Russian troops
Published on Monday, Sep 08, 2008
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TBILISI, GEORGIA: On the eve of a European Union shuttle mission to persuade Russia to pull its troops back to prewar positions, Georgia's president vowed Sunday to regain control of two breakaway provinces with the help of ''the rest of the world.''
A month after the Aug. 7 outbreak of war in the region and weeks after a cease-fire was approved, Russian troops remain entrenched inside Georgian territory.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is due in Moscow today at the head of an EU delegation charged with reducing tensions and ensuring Russian compliance with the cease-fire terms, which include withdrawing its troops to positions held before the fighting broke out. Russia says those troops are peacekeepers and that they are allowed under the accord.
Despite the presence of Russian troops on Georgian soil, President Mikhail Saakashvili said the West would help his country regain control of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, the separatist regions of Georgia recognized as independent nations by Moscow last month.
''Our territorial integrity will be restored, I am more convinced of this than ever,'' Saakashvili said in a televised appearance. ''This will not be an easy process, but now this is a process between an irate Russia and the rest of the world.''
''Our goal is the return of our territory and the peaceful unification of Georgia,'' he said.
In Moscow, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, who often taunts the West, insisted in an interview broadcast late Saturday that Russia was justified in its intervention in South Ossetia. He said there would be no cooling of ties with the West because the West depends on Russia's oil, gas and mineral wealth.
The West has been reluctant to provoke Moscow, and French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said the EU did not plan to impose sanctions against Russia.
President Dmitry Medvedev declared Saturday that ''Russia is a nation to be reckoned with'' following its war with Georgia.
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Posted 05:27 AM, 09/08/2008
we depend on russia. yeah right. i just placed an order for a russian made car. yeah right.
Posted 05:49 AM, 09/08/2008
mr.putin, i just checked on russian car production and computer quality. didn't take long. i see you still make junk as the last time i looked about 25 years ago.
