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European Union foreign ministers are meeting Sept. 5-6 in Avignon, France, to discuss a slew of issues that have arisen following Russia’s war with Georgia in early August, including the future of the EU’s relationships with the former Soviet states of Georgia, Ukraine and Belarus.

At the meeting, the EU ministers will discuss sending police forces to Georgia and possibly asking Moscow for permission to join Russia’s peacekeeping units in Georgia’s breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia — something Moscow will never consider. The foreign ministers will also discuss how to possibly proceed with a former strategy of bringing in Ukraine to the Western institutions, like NATO or the European Union — a topic EU members are bitterly divided on.

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