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| Russians 'agree Georgia deadline' | Russians 'agree Georgia deadline' |
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| Russia has pledged to remove its forces from Georgian land - excluding Abkhazia and South Ossetia - within a month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy says. | Russia has pledged to remove its forces from Georgian land - excluding Abkhazia and South Ossetia - within a month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy says. |
| Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, who met Mr Sarkozy in Moscow, said the pullout would happen once 200 EU monitors had been deployed in South Ossetia. | |
| Mr Medvedev also said he would need assurances that Georgia would not use force again. | |
| And Russia also agreed to remove a key checkpoint from Georgian territory. | |
| In the same briefing, Mr Medvedev said there would be international talks on the area's security on 15 October. | In the same briefing, Mr Medvedev said there would be international talks on the area's security on 15 October. |
| The two leaders took part in more than three hours of talks, which also involved the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and the European Commission head, Jose Manuel Barroso. | |
| Mr Sarkozy was pressing Russia to meet the terms of the ceasefire agreement and withdraw its troops from Georgia. | |
| Russia says the deal allows it to keep peacekeepers in several buffer zones around two breakaway Georgian regions which it has recognised as independent. | |
| Russian troops entered Georgia after responding with force to Georgian attempts to recapture South Ossetia last month. |