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News Source: The Daily Star (Bangladesh)
| 5 months ago
Monday, extends only to the conflict between Georgia and the breakaway enclave of Abkhazia. Russia sent troops deep into Georgia in August 2008 to beat back a Georgian military attempt to retake South Ossetia, a territory which had received extensive...
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News Source: Middle East Security News
| 5 months ago
Security Council blocked the renewal for a U.N. observer mission in Georgia. "The secretary-general regrets that the Security Council has been unable to reach agreement on the basis of a package of practical and realistic proposals he submitted to...
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News Source: Kiev Post
| 5 months ago
Georgia on Tuesday lambasted Russia for vetoing a resolution that would have extended the U.N. observer mission in the breakaway Abkhazia region, saying it showed Moscow's isolation from the world. Russia's Security Council veto highlighted Moscow's...
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News Source: Kiev Post
| 5 months ago
A Georgian police officer, left, beats an opposition activist as the officers attack the demonstrators gathering near the police headquarters in Tbilisi, on Monday, June 15, 2009. Russia, at odds with Western powers over Georgia, vetoed on Monday a...
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News Source: Russia Today
| 5 months ago
After Saakashvili’s regime kicked off last summer’s war in the Caucasus, South Ossetia and Abkhazia declared their full independence, which Russia recognised. But Saakashvili’s government seems not to want to come to terms with the fruits of...
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News Source: CNN
| 5 months ago
The rift between Russia and Western powers over Georgia burst back into full view on the U.N. Security Council when Russia vetoed a resolution that would have extended the U.N. observer mission in Georgia. The observer force had been in existence...
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News Source: Press TV
| 5 months ago
The US-EU sponsored resolution would have allowed the existing UN observer force to remain for two more weeks in Abkhazia, which has declared independence from Georgia. Upon rejecting the Security Council bill on Monday, the Russian ambassador to the...
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News Source: Voice of America
| 5 months ago
Security Council to block a resolution that would have extended the mandate of the U.N...The extension was needed to give council members time to negotiate a plan for the mission's future...Observer force will shut down at midnight Monday New York...
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News Source: Scoop
| 5 months ago
Russia vetoed a technical roll-over for the nearly 16-year-old operation. China, Libya, Uganda and Viet Nam abstained on the vote on the text, which would have extended the Mission – entrusted with overseeing the ceasefire accord between the...
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News Source: Macleans
| 5 months ago
Security Council and brought an end Monday to the nearly 16-year-old observer mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region. Russia's veto late Monday toppled a Western plan to extend the life of the U.N. mission...