Russia Agrees to Limited Pullout From Georgia
Sep 9th, 2008 | By David Harper | Category: WorldThe New York Times: After a tense four-hour meeting with President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, Russia’s president, Dmitri A. Medvedev, announced Monday that Russia agreed to withdraw its troops by mid-October from its positions in Georgia outside the breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
He also agreed to allow 200 observers from the European Union to monitor the conflict, a step that Russia had resisted. But Mr. Medvedev said Russia would stand by its decision to recognize the two breakaway regions as independent nations.