France Presses for European Peace Monitors in Georgia.

France sought Wednesday to unite the 26 other nations in the European Union behind the accord brokered with Russia to end the war in Georgia, urging that monitors be dispatched to the Caucasus to help uphold the truce between Georgian and Russian forces. The sudden eruption of war in Georgia last week bared divisions within Europe over a resurgent Russia and Georgia's pursuit of NATO membership. Georgia has cast itself as engaged in a lonely struggle to maintain democracy in Russia's backyard. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]