Russian troops have begun withdrawing from western Georgia as part of a deal which French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the current holder of the EU's rotating presidency, brokered in Moscow last Monday.
Georgia's interior ministry says five Russian checkpoints have been vacated near Georgia's Black Sea port of Poti. However, Russia insists it will keep a total of 7,600 troops in what Moscow calls a "buffer zone" around the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The EU-Russian deal allows for the deployment of 200 EU observers due to be in place by the beginning of October.
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