By KUNA,
Brussels : Foreign ministers of the 27-member European Union are to hold an extraordinary meeting in Brussels on Wednesday to discuss the outbreak of war between Georgia and Russia, EU sources told KUNA Monday.
The sources gave no further details but noted that the French EU Presidency will announce further details.
According to media reports, EU ministers are expected to discuss the suspension of EU-Russia negotiations on a new bilateral cooperation agreement, freezing talks on visa-free travel for Russian citizens and holding back EU humanitarian aid to Chechnya until Russia stops the fighting in Georgia.
The EU launched talks in July on a new pact with Russia to replace its old Partnership and Cooperation Agreement and pays around 18 million euro a year in aid to help rebuild war-torn Chechnya, the EUobserver.com reported today.
But Russia’s incursion into Georgia last week threw EU-Russia relations into turmoil, in the gravest European security crisis since the 1999 Kosovo war, it added.