STOCKHOLM, Aug 25 (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she did not expect Russian President Dmitri Medvedev to sign a Russian parliamentary resolution recognising two rebel regions of Georgia as independent states. "I expect that the Russian president won't sign the resolution," she told a news conference while in Stockholm for talks with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt. Merkel added that signing the resolution would only add tension to an already critical situation. Russian lawmakers on Monday urged the Kremlin to recognise Georgian rebel regions South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Monday. Georgia and Russia fought a brief war earlier this month over South Ossetia after Tbilisi sent in troops to try to retake the province by force, provoking a massive counter-attack by land, sea and air from Moscow. (Reporting by Adam Cox and Veronica Ek)
Workers clear debris from buildings damaged during the conflict with Georgia's breakaway region of South Osseti, in Gori, about 80km (50 miles) from Tbilisi, August 25, 2008. A call by ...
