Too soon to kiss and make up

摘要

Russia announced this week that, just as it promised, it had pulled all its troops in Georgia back to the two disputed territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. Many European Union leaders were swift to praise the Kremlin for meeting the conditionsrnit agreed with France's Nicolas Sarkozy some six weeks ago-and almost as quick to suggest a return to business as usual. A majority now want to start talks in November on a new "partnership and co-operation agreement". Their none-so-subtle message is: forget about the pesky Georgian president, Mikheil Saakashvili, who was anyway responsible for starting the war on August 7th, and attend instead to the more urgent task-of repairing relations with our biggest energy supplier.