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EU verifies Russia's pullout

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Russian forces have fully withdrawn from buffer zones adjoining Georgia's breakaway regions, according to the EU's foreign policy chief Javier Solana.

Friday was the deadline for the pull-out under a ceasefire plan.

However French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner earlier said that Russian forces remained in some disputed pockets.

Mark Mardell reports from Georgia.

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