UN council to reconvene Monday on Georgia fighting
Georgia has gotten its wish for another U.N. Security Council emergency session, just as the former Soviet republic said Russia’s firepower had effectively split it in half.
The Monday afternoon session tentatively begins at 5 p.m. EDT as private consultations that Georgia can’t attend, since it’s not a member of the 15-nation council. That leaves most of the diplomacy to Russia and the United States, Georgia’s ally.
It will be the fifth such session since clashes erupted Thursday and diplomats say it will examine the latest developments on the ground.
Georgia’s president says Russia’s troops have effectively cut the country in half by seizing Gori, a strategic city along the country’s main east-west highway and only about 60 miles west of the capital Tbilisi.
