Dmitry Medvedev, Russia’s president, on Monday agreed to dismantle Russian checkpoints in Georgia and replace its troops with 200 European Union monitors by October 1, a breakthrough in peace negotiations that had been at stalemate for the past several weeks.
Checkpoints near the Georgian port city of Poti would be dismantled ”within a week” said Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France. ”Within a month, the Russian troops will have been withdrawn from Georgian territory with the exception of South Ossetia and Abkhazia,” he added after a meeting with Mr Medvedev.
