Русская версияEuropean Union foreign ministers have expressed broad support for
the idea of establishing an international presence in Georgia.
Following an emergency meeting in Brussels, Foreign Minister
Bernard Kouchner of France, which holds the EU presidency, said
that presence would almost certainly not take the form of a
peacekeeping force.
He said the Russians would be more likely to
accept a mission of European monitors. Kouchner also stressed that
nothing would happen without a United Nations Security Council
resolution. The meeting comes a day after France brokered a
cease-fire to end several days of fighting between Russian and
Georgian forces, which began when Tbilisi moved to crush
separatists in South Ossetia. Meanwhile, German Chancellor Angela
Merkel's office has announced that she plans to travel to the
Georgian capital next week.
(Deutsche Welle)
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