VIENNA (AP) — The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe agreed Tuesday to immediately send 20 additional unarmed military monitors to areas near South Ossetia and eventually to deploy up to 80 more. The OSCE already has eight military monitors in the region as part of its 200-person mission in Georgia. Six were in South Ossetia's capital, Tskhinvali, until they were evacuated to the Georgian capital of Tbilisi after their field office was shelled during the recent fighting between Georgian and Russian troops.
NATO is accusing Russia of failing to honor the full terms of the cease-fire agreement brokered by the European Union last week aimed at ending the fighting in Georgia. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer said today that Russian forces are still inside Georgia despite the agreement to withdraw
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