FACTBOX: Peace plan agreed to by Russia and Georgia

Wed Aug 13, 2008 12:23pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili have agreed to a peace plan proposed by their French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy to end fighting in the regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Below is the content of the outline plan, as laid out by Sarkozy overnight at a news conference in Georgia.

France presented the text to European Union foreign ministers on Wednesday so that they could throw their weight behind it. Sarkozy said it would also provide the basis for a draft U.N. Security Council resolution.

1. NO RECOURSE TO THE USE OF FORCE

2. DEFINITIVE CESSATION OF HOSTILITIES

3. FREE ACCESS FOR HUMANITARIAN AID

4. GEORGIAN MILITARY FORCES MUST WITHDRAW TO THEIR NORMAL

BASES

5. RUSSIAN MILITARY FORCES MUST WITHDRAW TO THE LINES PRIOR  Continued...

 

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