Russian President Medvedev meets with Abkhazian leader Bagapsh and South Ossetian counterpart Kokoity

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin smiles before a Security Council meeting in the Kremlin in Moscow on September 17, 2008. The United States on Wednesday called on Russia to respect Georgia's territorial integrity and urged Moscow to pull its forces back to where they were before the conflict flared up in early August. (UPI Photo/Anatoli Zhdanov)