EU´s Solana visits Georgia as EU deploys monitors
European Union foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, has visited an EU military observers' mission in Georgia, and a nearby camp for people displaced by the recent Russia-Georgia war.
Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, right, greets EU
Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana in Tbilisi, Georgia,
Tuesday, Sept. 30, 2008. Solana arrived in Tbilisi on
the eve of the scheduled deployment of around 300 EU
monitors outside South Ossetia and another Russian-backed
separatist region, Abkhazia, on Wednesday.
(AP Photo/Irakli Gedenidze, Pool)
In the town of Gori, Solana met EU observers, who are deployed as part of a cease-fire plan following last month's conflict. During his visit to the camp, Solana met some of the inhabitants and asked about their living conditions.
He also met Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and other officials in the Georgian capital, Tbilisi. Solana's visit comes on the eve of the scheduled deployment of around 300 EU monitors in Georgia.