05/08/2009 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 5 August, the Russian minister for foreign affairs quoted by Reuters confirmed that Moscow welcomed the work of European Union observers deployed in Georgia following the Russian-Georgian war last summer but is opposed to US observers joining them. On the Russian television channel Vesti-24, Sergey Lavrov declared, “the presence of EU observers in Georgian territory bordering Southern Ossetia and Abkhazia is an important fact in stability and we...