General: Troop Pullout From Georgia Completed

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Washington Post
November 15, 2007
Pg. 20

A top Russian general said early Thursday that Russia has completed its withdrawal of troops based in Georgia, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported.
"There are no more Russian troops in Georgia, there remain only peacekeepers . . . in Abkhazia and those that are part of the combined forces in South Ossetia with the participation of Georgia," the news agency quoted the commander in chief of Russian ground troops, Gen. Alexei Maslov, as saying.
The final removal of troops that were based in Georgia as a holdover from the 1991 collapse of the Soviet Union would eliminate one of the most contentious points in Russia-Georgia relations.
 
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