President Dmitry Medvedev says Russia will complete a troop withdrawal from buffer zones near Georgia's two breakaway regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia by midnight on Wednesday.
Medvedev was speaking at an international policy conference in the French Alpine town of Evian. Commenting on the global financial turmoil, Medvedev backed a call by his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy for an enlarged Group of Eight meeting to tackle the crisis. Later, the Russian leader is set to hold talks with Sarkozy, who brokered the ceasefire that ended Moscow's brief war with Georgia in August.
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