The deal brokered by the European Union for the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia has been slammed by Nato's top official as "not acceptable" because it cedes too much ground to Moscow.
As EU foreign ministers prepare today to discuss the accord brokered last week by Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, Nato's secretary-general, warned that the agreement provided no grounds for the revival of the Nato-Russia relationship.
