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UN Security Council to discuss Georgia Tuesday
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. Security Council was expected to hold closed consultations later on Tuesday on Georgia as Western countries prepared a new draft resolution demanding Russian withdrawal, Western diplomats said. They said the consultations, expected at 3.30 p.m. EDT (1930 GMT), were likely to be followed by a formal meeting to take a first look at the draft and be briefed on the situation in Georgia by senior U.N. officials.

It was unlikely that a vote would be called ever on Tuesday, the diplomats said. They said the new resolution was brief and called for observance of the cease-fire in Georgia and a Russian withdrawal. One diplomat said it was likely that veto-holding Russia and perhaps other Security Council members would oppose it.

The new draft replaces a longer text that would have endorsed a peace plan promoted by French President Nicolas Sarkozy and signed by Georgia and Russia.
So the French may veto the substitution, for example, just out of spite ...
Some Russian tanks and armored vehicles left the key Georgia town of Gori on Tuesday, but NATO said it was freezing contacts with Moscow until all Russian forces were out of the Black Sea state. The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian troops would withdraw to pre-conflict positions by Aug. 22.
Posted by: Steve White 2008-08-20
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