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French President Nicolas Sarkozy will demand Moscow complies with a month-old peace plan for Georgia or risk demaging relations with the EU when he meets his Russian counterpart for talks today.

Georgia will seek a ruling from the UN’s highest court in the Hague later today ordering Russia to stop what it is claimed are human rights violations against ethnic Georgians in the breakaway provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

CERNOBBIO, Italy (Reuters) – The European Union wants to work closely with the United States in resolving the Georgian crisis, Italy’s foreign minister said after meeting U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russian President Dmitry Medvedev accused the West on Saturday of acting provocatively in and around the Black Sea, where the United States is using warships to deliver humanitarian aid to Georgia.

BERLIN (Reuters) – The conflict between Georgia and Russia requires a rethink of a planned pipeline which will pump Russian gas under the Baltic Sea to Germany, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told a German newspaper on Saturday.

MOSCOW (Reuters) – Strains in Russia-EU relations over Russia’s war in Georgia pose a long-term threat to investment flows and risk further complications when critics of Kremlin policy assume the EU presidency over the next 12 months.

The French President is preparing a visit to Moscow in a renewed effort to strengthen a peace deal between Russia and Georgia over its breakaway regions.

After further falls on Friday, the Russian stock market has plunged more than 30% since the country’s invasion of Georgia last month.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iran voiced strong opposition against plans to lay pipelines on the seabed of the Caspian Sea, warning that the move would cause irreparable environmental pollution in the world’s biggest lake.

TEHRAN (FNA)- Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev received a visiting Iranian delegation led by the Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari on Thursday.