European Union monitors in Georgia witnessed the dismantling of a Russian checkpoint near the South Ossetia border in the "first open sign" of a pullback ahead of the Oct. 10 deadline agreed upon under a French-brokered peace plan.
EU observers have moved into a Russian-controlled buffer zone around Georgia's breakaway region of South Ossetia. More than 200 observers will oversee the Russian troop pull-out from these zones next to South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
The Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has not reached an agreement with Russia on deploying more observers in Georgia. Its members disagreed on where observers would be sent.
Foreign observers said on Monday that parliamentary elections in Macedonia did not meet international standards, calling attention to repeated violence that prevented voters from "freely expressing their free will."
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