Sarkozy brokers Georgia deal
French President Nicolas Sarkozy and EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso arrive at Meiendorf Castle near Moscow for talks with Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev on the crisis in Georgia.Their mission was to persuade Russia to honour a deal to pull its troops out of Georgian territory.
And their meeting appears to have been a success.
Medvedev pledged to pull troops out of core Georgian regions.
He said he had received a guarantee from the EU that Georgia would not use force again.
He also said agreement had been reached in principle for the deployment of a 200 strong EU monitoring contingent.
Medvedev has agreed to pull out troops from the South Ossetia buffer zone if an international force was in place.
Sarkozy said Russian troops would leave Georgia's heartland within one month and checkpoints around Georgia's port city of Poti would be removed within a week.
He added if the deal with Russia was implemented there was no reason for EU-Russia partnership talks not to take place in October.
Penny Tweedie, Reuters.
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