Germany calls for EU neighbours meeting on Georgia

Germany is calling for an EU neighbours meeting on Georgia to try and bring stability to the volatile region, amid conflicting claims from Moscow about whether it had promised to "pullback" or "withdraw" its troops from the small South Caucasus country.

The conference - tentatively named "reconstruction and stability in Georgia and the region" - would include many of the countries already involved in the EU's neighbourhood policy, a mechanism aimed at binding countries to the bloc throu...