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conmeo · #1 (**permalink**) 10-10-2008, 01:17 PM

TBILISI, Georgia — European leaders on Friday confirmed that Russians had met a deadline to withdraw troops from buffer zones outside South Ossetia and Abkhazia, though the French foreign minister said Russia has only “partially complied” with a European-brokered peace accord.

Georgia formally protested the continuing presence of Russian troops in Akhalgori district, an ethnically Georgian section of South Ossetia, and of the Kodori Gorge in Abkhazia, which was held by Georgian forces until the August war.

In a written statement, Georgia’s state minister for reintegration said “it has become evident that the Russian government is not intending to fulfill” a provision of the French-brokered peace accord that requires both sides to pull back troops to pre-war positions. Georgia also said Russia has violated the accord by keeping 7,600 troops in Abkhazia and South Ossetia —substantially more than were present before the war.

After visiting villages recently yielded back to Georgian control, the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said the peace accord “is being fulfilled gradually.” He said European leaders would discuss “the full liberation of Georgia from Russian troops,” including the return of refugees and the status of Akhalgori and Kodori, at a meeting in Geneva on Wednesday.

"You should understand that this agreement is not ideal,” Mr. Kouchner said during a televised visit to a refugee camp in Gori. “It was formed in a very short period of time. And we reached the main purpose — the fire was ceased.”

“On Aug. 10 when I was here you could not freely move to Tbilisi,” he added. “Now the road from Gori to Tbilisi is open.”

Russia said Friday that it was deploying 7,600 troops to bases in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, at the request of governments in Sukhumi and Tskhinvali. Russia has formally recognized the enclaves as sovereign nations.

Murat Dzhoiyev, the South Ossetian foreign minister, said his government has refused requests of all nongovernmental organizations hoping to enter the enclave through Georgia, and would work only with organizations arriving from the Russian side.

“If anyone comes to us via Georgia, it means that these people do not want to show any respect toward our victims or our position regarding Georgia,” he said, according to Interfax.

Meanwhile, the defense minister of Abkhazia, Mirab Kishmariya, said his government would not continue to work with a longstanding United Nations mission in the enclave — known as the U.N. Observer Mission in Georgia — unless it changed its name to eliminate the word “Georgia.”

“If the name is not subsequently changed,” he said, “then it will be difficult for us to cooperate.”

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