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Article: South Ossetian forces withdraw from Georgian village
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- July 8, 2004
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South Ossetian forces withdraw from Georgian village
MOSCOW, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Servicemen of Georgia's rebel republic
of South Ossetia on Thursday left the Georgian village of Vanati,
Itar-Tass news agency reported.
Envoy of Georgian Presidential envoy Mikhail Kareli said the
pullout was the result of a negotiation between him and the leader of
the joint peacekeeping forces stationed in the Georgian-South
Ossetian conflict zone, the report said.
Up to 200 armed South Ossetians on Wednesday night entered Vanati
which is populated by Georgian ethnic Georgians and disarmed 50
Georgian servicemen there.
The Georgian peacekeepers surrendered their weapons to avoid armed
clashes and they ...