I believe Moscow is asking for the resignation of the Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. It sounds like a fair trade for peace. In this way, a new president of Georgia an be chosen that will better get along with Russia to calm the redrawn borders that was once Georgia's to claim.
In all honesty, the UN proposal is high handed and villianizes Russia, again.
It's like playing poker at this point. The Europeans and Americans were completely caught off guard by the clash and now seeks to neutralize the circumstances to 'regroup' and place themselves in a better position to retaliate.
I don't think that will be possible.
The USA has too many 'war irons' in the fire and nuclear exchanges are simply out of the question unless Bush/Cheney get really stupid. The attitudes and platitudes of the UN is simply unrealistic and an insult to a sincere outcome to any expectations.
Medvedev raises two conditions for peace in Georgia (click here)
12 Aug 2008 11:22:46 GMT 12 Aug 2008 11:22:46 GMT Source: Reuters
French President Nicolas Sarkozy, in Moscow to promote an international plan to end hostilities, called for fast efforts to create a timetable to ensure all forces returned to previous positions.
"We can discuss the question of a definitive settlement if two conditions are met," Medvedev, who earlier announced a halt to military operations, said in the Kremlin before meeting the French leader.
"First, Georgian troops should return to their initial position and be partly demilitarised. Second, we need to sign a binding agreement on non-use of force."
Sarkozy, trying to adopt an even-handed approach to the conflict, welcomed the announcement of a Russian halt to military operations....
...The French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, has preceded his boss to the region. France last night circulated a draft resolution at the UN security council calling for an "immediate and unconditional cessation of hostilities and the complete withdrawal or Russian and Georgian forces" before August 7.
Other elements of the plan call for a humanitarian corridor and for a European peacekeeping force to replace the Russian "peacekeepers", which have been deployed in South Ossetia since 1992. Eager for a lifeline out of the mess it has unwittingly created, Georgia has accepted the proposal.
But the Russians are not biting. They are unhappy that the resolution, in the words of their ambassador to the UN, Vitaly Churkin, is "too soft" on Georgia, and contains "no reference to Georgian aggression or Georgian atrocities"....
