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Russia Signs Cease-Fire Agreement, With Reservations

Posted on Aug 16, 2008

On Saturday, Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed the French-brokered peace treaty already inked by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. However, this is clearly an uneasy and tentative truce: Russian officials say their troops will stay in Georgia for an indefinite time.

The New York Times:

The Russian announcements came a day after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice went to Georgia to demand a Russian pullout and win the Georgian president’s support for the revised cease-fire agreement.

But on Saturday, Russian troops remained within 25 miles of the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. And overall, the situation in Georgia was largely unchanged, with the Russians occupying wide swaths of territory.

If Russian troops do not begin withdrawing over the weekend, the standoff is likely to touch off more strains between Russia and the United States. Mr. Bush has repeatedly castigated Russia for invading Georgia after intense fighting broke out over a disputed province, South Ossetia, which is an ally of Moscow and wants to secede from Georgia.

The Kremlin has said that Georgia provoked the conflict by sending its troops into South Ossetia, and referred to the Georgia president, Mikheil Saakashvili, as a war criminal. Mr. Saakashvili has contended that Russia is determined to turn Georgia into the kind of vassal state that existed in the region during Soviet times.

It remained an open question on Saturday whether a dispute remained over the interpretation of the precise language of the cease-fire framework.

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By georgy, August 17, 2008 at 3:16 pm #
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“georgia provoked the conflict” - what an interesting choice of words. Massive bombardment of S. Ocetian civilian population (over 1500 dead), killing peace-keepers armed with machine guns only. People hidden in basements calling their relatives in Russia crying for help… leaving russians no choice but to go in.
Why there are so little western journalists reporting from S.Osetia. Well, reports from there would not fit the “party-line” of so-believed objective western news channels.

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By klaus, August 17, 2008 at 1:03 pm #
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http://bolshoyforum.org/forum/index.php?topic=18120.0

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By Purple Girl, August 17, 2008 at 10:55 am #

The people of these providences want to cecede- why is our gov’t claiming otherwise. What type of Freedom do this people have when U.S. officials are forcing them to remain attached to a country they don’t want?
Bush & Mac are not interested in Liberating the People- jus the Oil which runs through their region!
This is not an American Interest, it is an Oil Corp interest Again. Who still thinks these Oil corps (and their foreign Oil’royals’) have an ounce of allegience to US?
They will do the same to US when they are allowed to seize more oil rich land and shoreline.
Freeze & seiz all property currently being leased by the oil corps- ON OUR LAND!Seize all their equipment which has been purchased by our tax dollars (tax subsidies), Push them back on to land which they actually Own..then begin TAKING back that land as they begin to loss profits -Repo it!Lets run these Poachers off Our property!
Remove all energy resources from the stockmarket. Make all energy obtained and generated Here OURS for Our use first, and for Our profits when supply exceeds need!

‘ENERGY INDEPENDENCE’ MEANS WE OWN THE ENERGY!!!

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By yours trulyj, August 17, 2008 at 4:43 am #
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This Russo-Georgian/U.S.A War is a warning to us that we must elect someone who’s going to dismantle empire-USA along with with turning things around here at home. Otherwise? The abyss. Based on? Perpetual war + global warming = doomsday.

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By KAFLAN, August 17, 2008 at 3:29 am #
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Formally Georgia did not subscribe agreement. Saakashvili subscribe another agreement (with different words writed in the text of agreement). Lavrov told about this to whole world, but CNN (and others) didn`t receive command from USA government to publish this information.

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By P. T., August 16, 2008 at 10:42 pm #

Russia could build a wall around whatever land it wants in Georgia just like the Zionists do to the indigenous Palestinian people’s land—with U.S. support.

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