French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, has called a special European summit to address the crisis in Georgia.
The meeting is to convene on September 1 after several EU countries requested it. Western countries claim that Russia has not fulfilled an EU-brokered ceasefire, requiring Russia to withdraw its troops from Georgia proper. Moscow says that residual soldiers are to remain in buffer zones around Georgia's separatist territories of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Meanwhile, a US Navy warship has unloaded humanitarian aid to victims of Georgia's brief war with Russia. Also on Sunday, a fuel train exploded on Georgia's main east-west rail line near the Russian invasion of Georgia inadmissible - Czech ForMin ...
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(Deutsche Welle)
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