Georgia-Russia peace talks broke down today when Russian officials skipped a plenary session, Reuters reports, and the two sides failed even to agree on whether to include officials from South Ossetia and Abkhazia in the closed-door meeting. Each side bitterly blamed the other amid continuing tensions emanating from the five-day war in August.
"The Russians and the Georgians were not in a formal meeting at the same time, they weren't in the same room at the same time,"said one US diplomat.
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