Russia on Monday (8 September) rejected the planned deployment of an EU observation mission to Georgia, saying that there are already enough international observers on the ground.
"We think this [a separate EU mission] will result in superfluous fragmentation of international monitoring forces that are already being carried out by the UN and the OSCE [Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe]," Russian foreign ministry spokesman Andrei Nesterenko was quoted as saying by Frenc...
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