My Way News - US flagship reaches Georgian port held by Russia
AP reports: "The declaration by members of the Collective Security Treaty Organization - linking Moscow with Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan - also praised Russia for 'helping peace and security' in the region. However, the allies did not go as far as the Kremlin and recognize Georgia's two separatist areas - South Ossetia and Abkhazia - as independent nations."