(Adds Georgian president; joint news conference) By Margarita Antidze GORI, Georgia, Oct 10 (Reuters) - Russia has not fully complied with the terms of a ceasefire in Georgia, France's foreign minister said on Friday, casting fresh doubt on whether frozen EU-Russia partnership talks will resume soon. Russian soldiers and tanks pushed into Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and adjacent "buffer zones," as part of a massive counter-strike in August to crush an attempt by Georgian forces to retake South Ossetia. Moscow pulled out of the buffer zones this week, before an Oct. 10 deadline set out in the French-brokered ceasefire. But Georgia says the Kremlin has not fully complied because Russian soldiers remain in the two separatist regions. Asked in the Georgian town of Gori, near South Ossetia, if Russia had honoured the ceasefire deal, French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner told reporters: "I think so, but partly." "This is not complete. This is not perfect. It's just the beginning. This is not the end," Kouchner, whose country holds the European Union's rotating presidency, said in a tent camp for Georgians displaced by the fighting. He said outstanding issues would be tackled at international talks beginning in Geneva on Oct. 15 at the level of experts. After a tour of the buffer zone vacated this week by Russian forces -- where human rights groups say hundreds of ethnic Georgian homes were wrecked after the ceasefire came into force -- Kouchner took a swipe at the Russian military. "It's always very sad to see houses destroyed and people coming back and discovering their belongings in desperate state," said Kouchner, speaking in English. "It was not a good march of the Russian army. Not at all. EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana confirmed Russian forces had withdrawn from areas outside the rebel regions and said he hoped it would allow for villagers to return. EU DIFFERENCES Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said his country had done everything in its power to comply with the ceasefire. "I believe in this respect everything is developing all right," he told reporters at a regional summit in Kyrgyzstan. EU foreign ministers could decide next week whether to restart talks on a strategic partnership treaty with Russia that the 27-member bloc has put on hold until it is satisfied Russia has complied with the ceasefire deal. Kouchner and EU observers will present their findings at a meeting of foreign ministers on Monday, preparing a possible decision two days later by EU leaders to restart the talks. "Some are not in agreement. There are people supporting Russia, and there are people fighting against Russia," he said. But Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said Russia had to do more. "It's not a return to the status-quo, it's not a return to the status-quo of Aug. 7," he said, in reference to the date the war started. "Georgia will never come to terms with aggression and occupation," Saakashvili told a news conference with Kouchner in the Black Sea resort town of Batumi. Kouchner was sympathetic to Georgian claims that Russian troops should have left Akhalgori, a disputed pocket of South Ossetia that for years was de facto controlled by Tbilisi. "It is a problem, a very big problem," he said. Moscow says it will keep a total of 7,600 troops in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, which it has recognised as independent states, to protect them from further Georgia aggression. Diplomats in Brussels said some EU members, including Britain, Poland and the Baltic nations, favour waiting a while before resuming the partnership talks with Russia.
A general view shows collapsed houses in the village of Nura after it was hit by an earthquake October 6, 2008. A powerful earthquake killed at least 70 people in Kyrgyzstan ...
