Russia Introduces Draft Resolution on Georgia at UN Security Council

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Source: VOA

Russia has introduced a new draft resolution on the situation in Georgia at the U.N. Security Council. The move follows less than a day after France circulated a revised text on the subject that Moscow said it could not support. From United Nation's headquarters in New York, VOA's Margaret Besheer has more.

Russian Ambassador Vitaly Churkin told reporters Wednesday that the Russian draft is intended to put the Security Council on track with the six principles agreed to last week by the Russian and French presidents and signed onto by Georgia.

"We think that it is a straightforward thing and we see no reason why members of the Security Council could not approve or endorse the six principles which were annunciated by the presidents of Russia and France and which form the basis of the current effort to resolve and normalize the situation," Churkin said.

The six principles in that plan, and articulated in the Russian draft resolution, are a cessation of hostilities; a promise for the parties not to revert to violence; free access to humanitarian aid; the return of Georgian troops to their permanent bases; the withdrawal of Russian forces to their pre-conflict positions; and the opening of international discussions on security and stability arrangements in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Read more: http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-20-voa60.cfm?rss=topstories

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Also this one:

http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/Breaking%2BNews/World/Story/STIStory_270387.html

[maddezmom]

1. will be interesting to see what happens with this one

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2. Yeah. Rhetorical gymnastics competition coming right up ... nt

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3. Vetoes for everyone! nt

[Ghost Dog]

4. The word is "enunciated". n/t