August 13, 2008
Full text of the Georgia peace plan - and obstacles to its implementation
Charles Bremner, Moscow
Here is the Russia-Georgia ceasefire plan as agreed with President Sarkozy,
including the complications that have clouded its implementation.
The two sides agreed to:
1. The non-use of force to resolve the conflict
2. An immediate halt to all military action
3. Free access to humanitarian aid
4. Georgian troops will return to their positions of August 8, before the
conflict opened
Complication: These include troops with the international peacekeeping force.
Russia said today that it would no longer accept a Georgian role in this
force since the country’s troops had turned “traitor”.
5. Russian troops return to the lines they held before the start of the
military operation. Before an international solution is worked out Russian
peacekeepers are to take up an additional security role
Russia appears to be using this clause to extend its operations in Georgia.
Mr Sarkozy said that these security measures would be implemented only in
areas in the immediate vicinity of South Ossetia. “They are in no way
additional security measures regarding all of Georgia’s territory,” he said.
6. The start of an international discussion over the future status of South
Ossetia and Abkhazia
This paragraph was changed after Georgia objected to the original
French-Russian phrasing. This said that the “future status” of the two
separatist regions would be reviewed. Mr Sarkozy said that both sides agreed
on respecting the sovereignty of Georgia, but President Medvedev made clear
that Russia considered that the future of the regions was now officially on
the table. He compared the regions to Kosovo, whose independence from Serbia
has been recognised by most of the West.
Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister, said: “It is not possible to
resolve these issues outside the context of the status” of South Ossetia and
Abkhazia.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4522496.ece
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