| September 2008 |
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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said on Tuesday that he expected the situation in his country to stabilize with the upcoming withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers. 
Russia banned on Tuesday imports of all Chinese food products containing milk derivatives following cases of melamine poisoning in China, and over a lack of official information from Beijing, the chief sanitary official said. 
A converted intercontinental ballistic missile will be launched on October 1 from a rocket launch site in Russia's southern Urals to put a Thai earth observation satellite into orbit, the launch company said on Tuesday. 
The Russian Central Bank's international reserves, which saw strong growth for most of this year, have lost $40 billion in the past few weeks, an analyst at a leading brokerage said on Tuesday. 
Troops from Russia and Kazakhstan will conduct joint maneuvers near the Kazakh city of Almaty on October 3, the Central Asian country's Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

An international conference for countries willing to provide financial support for the social and economic development of post-conflict Georgia will be held in Brussels on October 22, a European Commission official said on Tuesday. 
Authorities in southern China have evacuated 678,000 residents following floods that have killed 17 people, the Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday. 
Russian Ambassador Vyacheslav Kovalenko left Georgia along with 22 embassy officials on Tuesday, a month after Tbilisi severed diplomatic ties with Moscow.

Abkhazia thanked Russia on Tuesday for the economic and political support it has provided since a separatist war with Georgia 15 years ago. 
Northern China's Shanxi Province, with one-third of the country's coal reserves, has decided to shut around half of its coal mines over safety violations, the Xinhua news agency said Tuesday. 
Serbia's president said on Tuesday he would not rule out dividing Kosovo into Albanian and Serbian parts if all other options to keep the disputed state within Serbia fail. 
A Russian warship from the Pacific Fleet has made a port call at the Maizuru naval base in Japan's Kyoto Prefecture, a Navy spokesman said on Tuesday.



