Truemors
Update thursday: French President Nicolas Sarkozy received U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Thursday at his official residence on the French Riviera for talks on the Russia-Georgia conflict and potential "EU-peaceplan monitors"
Update: Georgia's Deputy Defense minister says Russian troops have left Zugdidi in Western Georgia. source: skynews
Condi Rice visiting Sarkozy France, supporting EU-peace plan. Bush strongly supports EU-Peace plan focossing on humanitarian aid
Update 15:45 GMT Tanks
WRONG info not heading for Tbilisi
Georgian Interior ministry rejeceted informations about russian troops heading for Tbilisi, saying this are untrue rumours circulating in the Media, no activity source: skynews
Russian convoy evacuating arms depot
20 tanks convoy send to create buffer zone; blocking probably the highway connecting South Ossetia to rest of Georgia. Russia says it shot down 2 georgian spy drones above Sout Ossetia source: CNN-TV (AFP) no fighting so far
Tbilisi EU-peace plan signed
Tbilisi, president Saakashvili agreed to EU-peace plan, immediate cease-fire and humanitarian missions. The plan is the base for the UN-resolution said EU president Sarkozy at Tbilisi. Sarkozy, who just arrived from Moscow talks with Medvedev who agreed before to the EU-peace plan (press conference view video). The french exterior minister Kouchner presents the peace plan talk results at Brussels to his collegues from the European Union.
Sarkozy says EU-peace plan is base for UN resolution...
Sarkozy was proud that the European Union could play a leading mediating role in the crisis. He stressed that he is particularly coordinated with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Merkel will meet on Friday with Medvedev at Sochi on the Black Sea, the russian riviera luxury resort. Sarkozy sees the negotiated Peace plan as a base for the UN resolution. Today, the EU foreign ministers have a meeting in Brussels to deal with the document.
EU Europe explainer:
European Union has a rotary system for the president. At the moment an event or crisis happens the "rotary president" acts for all countries in Europe. Each country has the right to act independently, if not agreeing. Europe has no signed constitution at the moment, working on it. Seems difficult to handle, but in practice, as we see, the timesharing president makes an extra mile to convince his colleagues. South-America with the Mercosur union (Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay...) wants to adapt the rotary system, so every country can speak....
How merge personal results in the EU team ?
Congratulations to president Sarkozy for his excellent effort to get the peace plan with french diplomacy on the way. His persistence gave him the Nickname president "Duracell" (the longlife battery advertising). German Chancellor Angela Merkel will fix on friday the "emotional part" of the deal at the Sochi black sea resort meeting with russian president Medvedev ("after sales service"). Merkel speaks fluent English, German, russian giving her the emotional advantage being the best trouble shooter of the EU.
source in part: DW-TV, TF1-TV, ELYSEE-TV
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