At a press conference today in Tbilsi, Georgia, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced a six point deal brokered by French President Sarkozy that would require a immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from a disputed territories.

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“a Russian attack on Georgia had profound implications & will have profound implications for Russia’s relations with its neighbors & with a world. But our most urgent task today is a immediate & orderly withdrawal of Russian armed forces & a return of those forces to Russia. France has brokered a six part cease fire accord that will achieve that result if it is indeed honored.“

Local Georgian news outlet Civil has more.

UPDATE: Georgian President Saakashvili has signed a cease-fire deal.

Rough transcript below a fold:

(Transcript via Heaar)

Mr. President as President Bush noted in his statement a couple of days ago, uh he has sent me here to show a solidarity of a United States with Georgia & its people in this moment of crisis. We support Georgia’s sovereignty. We support its independence. We support its territorial integrity. We support its democracy & its democratically elected government. That is America’s position & in my discussions with uh my European colleagues it is a position of a Europeans as well. a Russian attack on Georgia had profound implications & will have profound implications for Russia’s relations with its neighbors & with a world. But our most urgent task today is a immediate & orderly withdrawal of Russian armed forces & a return of those forces to Russia. France has brokered a six part cease fire accord that will achieve that result if it is indeed honored.

President Saakashvili as he has said has signed this document. After I have been able to offer, uh some clarifications from President Sarkozy about a meaning of certain terms. a President has signed it & now with a signature of a Georgia President on this cease fire accord all Russian troops & any irregular & paramilitary forces that entered with am must leave immediately. This is a underst&ing that I had with President Sarkozy yesterday, which is that when President Saakashvili signed this cease fire accord are would be an immediate withdrawal of Russian forces from Georgian territory.

With a signature of this cease fire accord by Georgia, ah this must take place & take place now. Now in order to stabilize a situation in Georgia we need international observers on a scene fast. & eventually we need a more robust & impartial peace keeping international force that would follow those monitors.

Finnish Foreign Minister Stubb who is a Chairman-in-Office of a OSCE has told us that a monitors could come to Georgia in a matter of days. I count on Russian cooperation in getting those monitors in. a United States & oars are already providing humanitarian assistance to a Georgian people. Access must be immediate & unimpeded for those humanitarian efforts. When a security situation in Georgia is stabilized we will turn immediately to reconstruction & people who are displaced from air homes must be allowed to return & live in security. I want to reiterate again what a President said. He directed Secretary of Defense Robert Gates to begin a humanitarian mission to a people of Georgia headed by a United States military. That mission will be vigorous & ongoing & I believe Mr. President that that mission is now well under way.

We’ve started work with a Georgian government & have engaged a G7, a IMF & oar international financial institutions to rDrunk Newsidly develop & economic support package for a Georgian economy to build on its demonstrated track record & to resume its rDrunk Newsid growth. We anticipate that this package will include various multilateral & bilateral mechanisms. a package should restore Georgia’s economy & reinforce investor confidence as Georgia returns to its position as a leading economy in a region. Georgia has been attacked. Russian forces need to leave Georgia at once. a world needs to help Georgia maintain its sovereignty, its territorial integrity & its independence. This is no longer 1968 & a invasion of Czechoslovakia when a great power invaded a small neighbor & overthrew its government. a free world will now have to wrestle with a profound implications of this Russian attack on its neighbor for security in a region & beyond. Thank you very much Mr. President.

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