(BARVIKHA) - Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev agreed Monday on the deployment of at least 200 EU observers in Georgia by October 1 to monitor a ceasefire as Russian troops withdraw.

We agreed to "accelerate deployment of observers in the zones... in sufficient number to replace Russian peacekeeping roces by October 1 2008, including at least 200 observers from the European Union," Medvedev said.

He was speaking alongside French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the current EU president.

Sarkozy was in Moscow at the head of an EU delegation seeking to enforce the terms of a peace deal he brokered last month to end a five-day war between Georgia and Russia.

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