標題:Russia tables own UN Georgia text
PEACE PLAN
*No more use of force
*Stop all military actions for good
*Free access to humanitarian aid
*Georgian troops return to their places of permanent deployment
*Russian troops to return to pre-conflict positions
*International talks about security in South Ossetia and Abkhazia
Russia has circulated its own draft UN Security Council resolution aimed at
bringing peace to Georgia, a day after rejecting a rival French document.
The Russian text endorses a six-point ceasefire plan signed by Moscow and
Tbilisi last week.
Moscow earlier said it could not back the French draft that demanded an
immediate Russian pullout from Georgia.
The US and its European allies have criticised Russia for keeping its troops
in Georgia despite the truce.
All this shows how far apart Russia is from the West, says the BBC's Laura
Trevelyan at the UN headquarters in New York.
Russia is one of the five veto-wielding nations of the 15-member Council who
can block UN resolutions.
The conflict broke out on 7 August when Georgia launched an assault to wrest
back control of the Moscow-backed separatist region of South Ossetia,
triggering a counter-offensive by Russian troops who advanced beyond South
Ossetia into Georgia's heartland.
US President George W Bush reiterated on Wednesday that South Ossetia and
another breakaway region, Abkhazia, remained part of Georgia.
In a separate development, Russia issued new, reduced casualty figures for
the Georgian conflict, with 133 civilians now listed as dead in Georgia's
breakaway region of South Ossetia.
The figure is far lower than the 1,600 people Russia initially said had died.
'Additional security measures'
The Russian draft resolution restates the terms of the six-point ceasefire
deal brokered by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and later signed by Russian
President Dmitry Medvedev and Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.
The text "calls upon the parties concerned to implement the above mentioned
plan in good faith".
Moscow also argues that the truce allows it to implement unspecified
"additional security measures" before pulling out of Georgia.
France had originally negotiated with Russia a resolution similar to the one
now introduced by Moscow but later shelved it.
European countries and the US say Russia is not honouring the ceasefire plan
and should withdraw its forces from Georgia as soon as possible, our
correspondent says.
She adds that Western diplomats say they want to expose Russia.
On Tuesday, Russia rejected the French draft saying it contradicted the terms
of last week's ceasefire deal.
That text called on Russia to pull back its forces to the positions held
before the current conflict.
But Moscow said the truce allowed its troops to stay in a buffer zone on the
Georgia side of South Ossetia's border.
At the UN, Russian ambassador Vitaly Churkin also objected to language in the
draft reaffirming Georgia's territorial integrity, saying South Ossetia and
Abkhazia did not want to be part of Georgia.
The conflict broke out on 7 August when Georgia launched an assault to wrest
back control of the Moscow-backed breakaway region of South Ossetia,
triggering a counter-offensive by Russian troops who advanced beyond South
Ossetia into Georgia's heartland.
Georgia says its action was in response to continuous provocation.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7573585.stm
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