Archive for October, 2008

EU hits back at Russia over Georgia monitoring

Fri Oct 24, 2008 4:17pm BST

By David Brunnstrom

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Russia needs to give specific information on alleged Georgian ceasefire violations for EU monitors to act, and so far Moscow has not even provided a telephone contact number, the EU monitoring team said on Friday.

Smart Aid

By DAVID L. PHILLIPS
OCTOBER 22, 2008
Wall Street Journal Europe
With the collapse of last week’s Geneva Conference on postconflict Georgia, the mantle of leadership on economic and humanitarian aid in Georgia falls to the European Union, which plans to raise €1 billion at its donors conference with the World Bank today in Brussels.

Too soon to kiss and make up

The European Union should not give Russia a new partnership deal until it genuinely withdraws from Georgia RUSSIA announced this week that, just as it promised, it had pulled all its troops in Georgia back to the two disputed territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Georgia Update

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Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia

Statement of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia on the press release issued by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation regarding withdrawal of Russian Armed Forces from Georgia.