Russia calls for stronger OSCE role in Georgia

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev
called for a stronger role for the Organisation of Security and
Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in the Georgia-South Ossetia
conflict zone, the Kremlin said on Saturday,Reuters reported.
In a statement he said he had expressed the view in a
telephone conversation with Tarja Halonen, the president of
Finland which holds the OSCE's rotating chairmanship.
Halonen urged Medvedev to agree on increasing OSCE military
monitors to 100 from 10, the Finnish president's office said.
There was no word from the Kremlin on the details.