Русская версияFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy has called on his Russian
counterpart Dmitry Medvedev to withdraw his country's forces from
western Georgia.
Russian forces have retreated from the central
Georgian city of Gori, but Moscow still controls access to cities
in western Georgia and Abkhazia. Acting as chair of the European
Union, Sarkozy phoned Medvedev and urged him to pull back Russian
forces from a key road linking the port city of Poti to Senaki.
Russia says the remaining troops are peacekeepers needed to avert
further bloodshed and to protect the people of Georgia's separatist
provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The United States and
Europe fear the Russian presence will cement Georgia's ethnic
partition, undermine the pro-Western government of President
Mikheil Saakashvili and threaten vital energy pipelines in the
area.
(Deutsche Welle)
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