Confusion over EU’s Georgia role

Feature reports that only hours before scores of EU observers are expecting to start patrolling in Georgia on the 1 October 2008, it is still unclear where they can go.

• Primary Source

France24, 2.10.08: EU observers enter Georgia buffer zone http://www.france24.com/en/20081002-eu-observers-peace-mission-russian-withdrawal-south-ossetia-abkhazia&navi=EUROPE

BBC News, 1.10.08: Frustration as EU monitors barred http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7647111.stm

ESO: Background information: EU plans Georgia peace monitors http://www.europeansources.info/record/eu-plans-georgia-peace-monitors/

France24, 30.9.08: Solana in Tbilisi ahead of EU monitoring mission http://www.france24.com/en/20080930-solana-georgia-eu-compliance-peace+agreement-russia-ossetia&navi=MONDE

Council of the European Union: Press Release: S321/08: Address by EU HR Javier SOLANA at the European Union Monitoring Mission (EUMM)Headquarters in Georgia http://www.consilium.europa.eu/ueDocs/cms_Data/docs/pressData/en/discours/103136.pdf

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