Calls for truce and meaningful talks between the sides have also come from NATO head Jaap de Hoop Scheffer and the European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana.
The former issued a special statement in Brussels, and the latter spoke on the telephone with the Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili.

France says it is discussing the situation with Russia, the European Union, the United Nations and Europe's OSCE security organization. The Russian NATO Ambassador Dmitri Rogozin is back in Brussels from a vacation