Dozens of monitors from across the European Union arrived in Georgia yesterday for a mission intended to ease tensions in the war-torn country, a Western diplomat close to the mission said. Nearly 70 observers arrived by plane from Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Lithuania, Spain and Sweden, while a Romanian group came by ship, landing in the Black Sea port of Poti with armored cars, said the diplomat. The arrivals were among the vanguard of about 300 unarmed EU observers due to be in position on October 1, as part of a peace deal tackling the consequences of last month's war between Georgia and Russia over the South Ossetia rebel region. Following the EU deployment, Russia has committed to drawing its troops back to their "pre-conflict positions" by October 10 as part of a deal that France, the EU's current president, brokered to end last month's fighting.
Note EU-Digest: Its amazing that during the first Presidential debate held tonight in Mississippi neither one of the candidates acknowledged that the Georgians were the first to attack and start the conflict.
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