

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili speaks during a security council meeting in Tbilisi on Saturday, Aug. 9, 2008. Georgia's President Mikhail Saakashvili proposed Saturday to declare a cease fire in the breakaway province of South Ossetia. Saakashvili, speaking at a news conference Saturday, also proposed that the warring parties be separated. (AP Photo/Irakli Gedenidze, pool)