A European Union mission intended to ease the conflict in Georgia has started preparing for the deployment of over 300 observers to the still-tense ex-Soviet republic.
An EU official said the bloc would likely deploy 340 observers instead of the 200 originally intended, to monitor the peace in a buffer zone around Georgia's breakaway regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Germany is contributing 25 observers to the mission. Over the weekend, the head of the EU mission, German diplomat Hansjörg Haber, met Georgian Prime Minister Lado Gurgenidze in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi, to discuss the mission. The EU's mandate remains unclear. Russia has disputed Georgian claims that observers would be allowed into the rebel regions.
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