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Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili says he is willing to resign if Russian troops withdraw from Georgia's two separatist regions. Saakashvili says he is even ready to mutilate himself in return for Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
Russia has expressed a willingness to restore diplomatic relations with neighboring Georgia, according to a statement posted on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry.
Georgia's Interior Ministry says a former lawmaker has been arrested on charges of plotting a coup amid a political crisis in the country some four years ago.
