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- Russian Defence Minister Anatoly Serdyukov signed the long-awaited agreements with his Abkhazian and South Ossetian counterparts Merab Kishmaria and Yury Tanayev.
Russia is planning to build a military base in Abkhazia with the latest utilities and a good encampment, according to an official.
Russia's UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin cast his veto during a Security Council vote on a draft sponsored by Western countries which called for a two-week extension of the mandate and indirectly reaffirmed the council's commitment to Georgia's territorial integrity.
Russian parliament on Wednesday approved crucial treaties cementing close economic and military ties with Georgia's breakaway provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which were at the centre of a Caucasus war between Moscow and Tbilisi.
Russia will establish permanent military bases in the Georgian separatist regions of South Ossetia and Abhazia next year, the chief of the Russian general staff has said.
Internationally-backed peace talks between Georgia and Russia broke down on the first day Wednesday with the rivals, who fought a war in August, blaming each other for the failure to even enter the same room.- Russia's foreign ministry said on Saturday that it hoped other countries would follow Nicaragua in recognising the independence of the Georgian separatist provinces of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
France will move a resolution in the UN Security Council seeking immediate ceasefire in the Caucasus region, where fighting has raged between Russian and Georgian forces.- Russia military forces turned up the pressure on their Georgian opponents Tuesday as international diplomats scrambled to bring a ceasefire to the widening war in Ossetia.
The head of the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia on Friday rejected a German peace plan, aimed at resolving a conflict with Tbilisi after meeting Germany's foreign minister.
Russia has dismissed reports that it had opened a new military base in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia.- Interfax News Agency reports that Georgian officials have accused Russia of establishing a military base in the breakaway region of Abkhazia.
After Georgia slammed Russia's plans to boost peacekeeping troops in two rebel Georgian regions as the start of "full scale military aggression," a NATO's spokesman has said that Russia's recent moves and statements have "undermined" Georgia's territorial integrity.
