Saturday, March 3, 2012

Greek FM: deal hoped for on Georgia monitors

Greece's foreign minister said Wednesday an agreement to save the international monitoring mission in Georgia should be reached by the end of the month.

Greece currently heads the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, which ran the mission in Georgia before its mandate expired at the end of last year after Russia blocked attempts to prolong it.

"From the minute Greece took over the OSCE presidency, it has been carrying out a coordinated effort" to broker a deal allowing the monitors to remain in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi and the breakaway region of South Ossetia, Foreign Minister Dora Bakoyannis told the AP in an …

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