EU Georgia mission to depend on situation: Solana

BRUSSELS: The EU is ready to send observers to the breakaway Georgia regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia but must first see "how things evolve on the ground," the bloc's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said Monday.

The European Union's first commitment "is to deploy, at the beginning of October, 200 observers to obtain the Russian troops' withdrawal," said Solana as he arrived for a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels. "After that we'll see how things evolve. We are ready and disposed to go beyond these commitments and to other places," he added.