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Operation
Peace
·
On August
12, 2008
President
Dmitry
Medvedev
ordered a
halt to the
Russian
military
action in
Georgia
after five
days of
massive air
and land
attacks,
saying that
the mission
to "force
peace" in
the region
had been
accomplished.
·
Medvedev had
ordered
Operation
Peace
Enforcement
on August 8
after the
Georgian
government
troops
launched a
massive
offensive to
retake
breakaway
South
Ossetia,
most of the
population
of which are
Russian
citizens.
·
Russia
virtually
ruled out
the joint
plan
proposed by
the European
Union (EU)
and
Organisation
of Security
and
Cooperation
(OSCE)
and blamed
the US for
inciting
President
Saakashvili's
regime for
attacking
South
Ossetia.
·
Fighting
flared when
Georgia sent
its army to
regain
control of
South
Ossetia - a
region
nominally
part of
Georgia, but
with de
facto
independence
and where a
majority of
people hold
Russian
passports.
Mission
IAS’2009
·
Russia moved
in
forcefully,
sending
troops into
South
Ossetia and
Abkhazia,
another
breakaway
province.
·
Georgian
towns away
from the two
regions were
also bombed.
·
Some 100,000
people are
estimated to
have been
displaced by
the
conflict.
·
Sarkozy, in
his current
role as EU
president,
held talks
with Russian
President
Dmitry
Medvedev in
Moscow for
most of the
day before
flying to
Tbilisi.
·
He held news
conferences
with both
Medvedev and
Saakashvili
- with all
three
leaders
saying they
had agreed
to a
six-point
plan.
SIX-POINT
PEACE PLAN
·
No more use
of force
·
Stop all
military
actions for
good
·
Free access
to
humanitarian
aid
·
Georgian
troops
return to
their places
of permanent
deployment
·
Russian
troops
return to
pre-conflict
positions
·
International
talks about
future
status of
South
Ossetia and
Abkhazia |
