Iceland, Georgia in focus as EU foreign ministers meet
European Union attempts to stabilize Georgia and Iceland's bid to join the bloc were set to be the focus of attention on Monday as EU foreign ministers met in Brussels. The EU has kept a ceasefire monitoring mission of some 200 unarmed men in Georgia since the country's war with its Russian-backed breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, and foreign ministers are set to extend that mission until September 2010, diplomats said ahead of the meeting. Ministers are also expected to ask the EU's executive, the European Commission, to carry out an in-depth analysis of Iceland's readiness to join the bloc, after the island state applied for membership on Thursday.
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