Georgia's interior ministry says that Russian forces have completed a withdrawal from buffer zones around Georgia's breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
This confirms a statement made by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who is currently in France for talks with President Nicolas Sarkozy. The conditions of a French-brokered cease-fire required Russian troops to withdraw by Friday. A European Union mission of 300 monitors is to replace the Russian presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, nearly two months after Russia and Georgia's week-long war ended. Moscow says it will keep troops stationed inside the two breakaway Georgian regions.
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