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Article: UN council at stalemate on Georgia-South Ossetia
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- August 8, 2008
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Russia and Georgia accused each other of "ethnic cleansing" as the U.N. Security Council met in two tense emergency sessions Friday to head off all-out war between Russia, Georgia and the breakaway Georgian province of South Ossetia.
The twin last-ditch negotiations came just 12 hours apart after Georgian troops launching a major military offensive to regain control of separatist South Ossetia. The first meeting lasted three hours, ending at 2 a.m. Friday in New York.
The council finally broke off in a stalemate Friday night. Council president Jan Grauls, the Belgian ambassador, said the council plans to resume meeting on the situation in Georgia on Saturday ...