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Thread #113349   Message #2417973
Posted By: Emma B
19-Aug-08 - 03:40 PM
Thread Name: BS: War in Georgia (2008)
Subject: RE: BS: War in Georgia
I posted this reort yesterday -

'People insist that a terrible barrage struck the city late Aug. 7 and continued into the morning -

- accounts supported by Western monitors who were also forced into their cellars.

Even buildings used by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe were damaged, one severely.'

There were eight or nine OSCE monitors in South Ossetia prior to this conflict Russia has agreed to the deployment of a bigger international monitoring mission in and around Georgia's disputed region of South Ossetia, the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe said today.

'OSCE chairman Alexander Stubb, the Finnish foreign minister, said the plan called for the immediate dispatch of 20 military observers to Tbilisi'   ..... International Herald Tribune