By IRNA,
Moscow : Russia and Georgia have agreed to a plan brokered by France aimed at restoring peace in the region, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in Tbilisi on Wednesday.
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev had already said he had endorsed a plan that would see Russian and Georgian troops withdraw to their pre-war positions.
Georgia’s president said in a press conference he also agreed to the EU plan.
“There is a text. It has been accepted in Moscow, it was accepted here in Georgia. I have the agreement of all the protaganists,” Sarkozy said at a press conference in the Georgian capital Tbilisi.
The five-day conflict was started when Georgia tried to take control of the pro-Russian province of South Ossetia.
Casualty figures given by each side vary widely, with Russia claiming thousands of deaths and Georgia hundreds.
Moscow accused Georgia of “war crimes” in the area, saying thousands of civilians had been killed before it stepped in and comparing the situation to the war in Kosovo in the 1990s.