Nato cools relations with Russia after emergency summit on Georgian crisis

Nato cools relations with Russia after emergency summit on Georgian crisis - Telegraph

At an emergency summit in Brussels the 26 Nato states said that they were "seriously considering" the implications of Moscow's actions over their failure to withdraw their troops from Georgia in accordance with a ceasefire agreement.

Separately, they agreed to set up a new forum known as a Nato-Georgia Commission to deepen ties with Tbilisi.

The Alliance condemned Russian military action in Georgia as "disproportionate and inconsistent with its peacekeeping role" in the joint statement, stressing that "there is no military solution to the unresolved conflicts."

Although Russia has repeatedly announced it is pulling out the troops which poured into the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkazia to support rebel militias, little evidence of the withdrawal has emerged on the ground.