OSCE to increase monitors in S.Ossetia - Germany

The OSCE, the European security and rights organisation, will increase the number of monitors in South Ossetia to 300 from 200 to help supervise a fragile ceasefire between Russia and Georgia, Germany's foreign minister said. Frank-Walter Steinmeier...

The OSCE, the European security and rights organisation, will increase the number of monitors in South Ossetia to 300 from 200 to help supervise a fragile ceasefire between Russia and Georgia, Germany's foreign minister said.

Frank-Walter Steinmeier told a news conference the chairman in office of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, told EU foreign ministers in Brussels he had taken this decision.

The EU ministers agreed to contribute to the increased presence as a first step to help stabilise the situation in the breakaway Georgian region, Steinmeier said.

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