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Article: EU/RUSSIA : MOSCOW REJECTS EU PRESENCE IN SOUTH OSSETIA AND ABKHAZIA.
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- September 22, 2008
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Only two days after Nicolas Sarkozy and Dmitry Medvedev reached agreement in Moscow on Russia's troop withdrawal from Georgia, a new controversy has erupted between the EU and Moscow over the deployment of EU observers in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. On 10 September, Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said that the EU monitoring mission to be sent soon to Georgia will not have access to the two rebel provinces. Moscow's position contradicts statements made both by the French president and Javier Solana, the EU's diplomatic chief, who claimed that EU observers would have access to the entire territory of Georgia.
The EU monitoring mission, which will ...