By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
The US and Russia have assigned high-level delegations to sensitive EU-sponsored talks aimed at promoting security in accordance with the cease-fire in Georgia, officials said.
US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried will head a three-member delegation arriving in Geneva in time for the start of the one-day talks Wednesday, said Dick Wilbur, spokesman for the US mission to UN organizations in Geneva.
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Karasin arrived Tuesday, said an official of the Russian Mission, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he wasn't an authorized press spokesman.
The assignment of the delegations is the latest twist in the diplomatic challenge of arranging the talks to follow up on the cease-fire mediated by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that ended the Russian-Georgian fighting in August.
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