UN Security Council to discuss Russian flights over S.Ossetia

NEW YORK, July 21 (RIA Novosti) - The United Nations Security Council is to hold a closed session on Monday at Georgia's request to discuss an incursion into Georgian airspace by Russian military aircraft, the UN press service said. Georgia requested the session on July 10, in response to an admission by Russia on the same day that its fighters had flown over the breakaway Georgian territory of South Ossetia two days earlier. Russia said it had carried out the flights over fears that Georgia could invade the de facto independent republic. Tbilisi called the flights an act of "military aggression," and recalled its ambassador from Moscow. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was on a visit to Georgia on the day that Russia admitted the incursion, and said that Moscow should help Georgia resolve conflicts with its breakaway... [read full story]