EU Readies Georgia Observer Mission For October - Solana
Monday September 1st, 2008 / 11h41
BRUSSELS (AFP)--The European Union hopes to launch an observer mission to Georgia next month, E.U. foreign policy chief Javier Solana said ahead of an emergency E.U. summit in Brussels on the conflict. "I hope very much that by the next (EU summit) on the 15th of October we will have all the decisions finalized...for the mission to be deployed," he told reporters. An E.U. official said the bloc aimed to have the monitoring team in place "by the end of September, early October." Solana said an "exploratory mission" of around 40 people was already on the ground and that "we would like to have a new mission soon deployed." He said it would primarily have monitoring and planning duties, with an eye to seeing how the peace agreement that halted fighting between Russian and Georgian troops last month is being implemented. The mission would deploy in several phases, firstly in Georgia but not the separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, whose independence Russia recognized last week. Russia sent tanks and troops into Georgia on Aug. 8, a day after a Georgian offensive to retake rebel South Ossetia. The subject will figure on the agenda of an informal meeting of E.U. foreign ministers in Avignon, France starting Friday. Click here to go to Dow Jones NewsPlus, a web front page of today's most important business and market news, analysis and commentary: http://www.djnewsplus.com/al?rnd=icgi5NtdHSnkG51eDvXrgQ%3D%3D. You can use this link on the day this article is published and the following day.
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