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Article: Georgia calls cease-fire in South Ossetia
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- August 7, 2008
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Georgia's president on Thursday ordered his country's forces to cease fire in South Ossetia, the separatist region where days of sporadic clashes have raised fears of full-scale war.
President Mikhail Saakashvili announced the order in a television broadcast in which he also urged South Ossetian separatist leaders to enter talks on resolving the conflict.
South Ossetia also agreed to hold fire until a meeting Friday between the region's deputy prime minister and Georgia's top envoy for separatist issues, Russian news agencies reported, citing the head of the peacekeeping force in the region, Marat Kulakhmetov.
Saakashvili also proposed that Russia could become a guarantor ...