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Wed 10 Oct 2008EU monitors move into Georgia buffer zone
EU monitors moved into a Russian-controlled buffer zone around Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia today, clearing the way for a Russian troop pull-back by October 10th.
The 200-plus EU monitors began deploying under a French-brokered cease-fire deal that should see Moscow withdraw its troops from two buffer zones occupied in Georgia during a war in August.
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