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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9727

28 August 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/georgia
EU humanitarian aid still not allowed into South Ossetia and Abkhazia

Brussels, 27/08/2008 (Agence Europe) - Although European humanitarian aid is getting through to Georgia, Russian authorities are still denying access to the victims of the fighting in the breakaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, which have since been declared independent. This is despite contact made with the Russians in Tbilisi and through the Russian Embassy in Brussels, calling for the removal of all obstacles to international humanitarian law, a scenario close to that in...