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June 20, 2009

Fault Lines from Georgia to Kosovo

John Metzler, China Post

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Geopolitical fault lines are rumbling from Georgia in the Caucuses to Kosovo in the Balkans.

A surprise Russian veto in the Security Council effectively shutting down the U.N. monitoring mission in Georgia's breakaway region of Abkhazia and continuing political uncertainty in the former Yugoslav province of Kosovo confront the world community with simmering disputes while attention is focused elsewhere.

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