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Russia says to pull back Georgia force by Aug 22

MOSCOW
Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:57pm EDT

MOSCOW (Reuters) - President Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that by August 22 Russia will pull its troops in Georgia back to the positions set out in a French-brokered ceasefire agreement.

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Medvedev told French leader Nicolas Sarkozy by telephone that "by 22 August... a part of the peacekeepers will be pulled back to the temporary security zone," the Kremlin said in a statement.

"The remaining contingent that was used to reinforce the peacekeepers will be pulled back to the territory of South Ossetia and to Russia," the Kremlin said.

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge, editing by Christian Lowe)
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