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EU cautious about resuming talks with Russia

AFP, Luxembourg
EU foreign ministers yesterday were cautious on the possibility of renewing strategic partnership talks with Russia, frozen over the Georgia conflict, saying no decision may be made until next month.
"We arc going to discuss it again today,” said French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, before chairing talks with his EU counterparts in Luxembourg.
But he noted that a ceasefire deal ending the Russia-Georgia conflict in August was not being entirely respected.
Finnish Foreign Minister Alexander Stubb, who is also head of the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said the decision to resume talks on the wide-ranging deal with Moscow could be taken just ahead of an EU - Russia summit
scheduled for November 14.
Italian counterpart Franco Frattini echoed that "we will have to take stock of the progress made, ornotyetmade."
He said he would support that "in the margins, or during, the EU-Russia meeting in November we should announce resuming negotiations for the agreement."
EU leaders called off the talks on a strategic partnership agreement with Russia at a special summit on September 1.
One week later Russia agreed to bring its troops out of its buffer zones around the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
While still contesting Russia's backing for the rebel Georgian territories, the ministers were expected to decide that Russia has kept its commitments by withdrawing troops from the buffer zones.
Kouchner himself reaffirmed
that Russia had withdrawn its troops from the buffer zones, in line with a French-brokered ceasefire agreement.
"The Russians have withdrawn, and apart from South Ossetia and Abkhazia, there are no more Russia soldiers in Georgia," he said.
"We postponed" the partnership negotiations at an emergency summit on Georgia on September 1 called after Russia recognised the independence of rebel Abkhazia and South Ossetia, he recalled.
But he said that of the six-points in the peace agreement reached on August 12 between French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev, "we have fulfilled between two and three" points.
"Problems remain and we will analyse them." he said. "This is not something that can be resolvpd in two minutes."