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| Russia rejects EU talks on Abkhazia |
| 2008-06-07 |
| Dmitry Medvedev, Russia's president, has rejected foreign mediation in Moscow's row with Georgia over the separatist Abkhazia region, as Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, visited the disputed area. Medvedev also said Georgia should sign a non-aggression pact with Abkhazia and withdraw its troops stationed in the region. Medvedev met Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgia's president, on Friday during a regional summit of former Soviet states being held in the Russian city of St Petersburg. Referring to Western concerns over the Abkhazia issue, Medvedev said: "I think we can sort out our relations by ourselves." |
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