Russia has pledged to remove its forces from Georgian land - excluding Abkhazia and South Ossetia - within a month, French President Nicolas Sarkozy says.
Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev, who met Mr Sarkozy in Moscow, said the pull-out would happen once 200 EU monitors had been deployed in South Ossetia.
Mr Medvedev said he would also need assurances that Georgia would not try to use force in the region again.
But he made no mention of withdrawing troops from South Ossetia or Abkhazia.
And he defended Russia's controversial decision to recognise the independence of both of the breakaway regions, saying the move was "irrevocable".
Among other measures announced after the talks, Russia agreed to remove a key checkpoint from near the port of Poti within a week - but only if Georgia signed a pledge to not use force against Abkhazia.
And Mr Medvedev said there would be international talks on the conflict, which would take place in Geneva on 15 October.
The two leaders took part in more than three hours of talks, which also involved the EU foreign policy chief, Javier Solana, and the European Commission head, Jose Manuel Barroso.
Mr Sarkozy was pressing Russia to meet the terms of the ceasefire agreement and withdraw its troops from Georgia.
Russia had said the deal allowed it to keep peacekeepers in several buffer zones around two breakaway Georgian regions.
Russian troops entered Georgia after responding with force to Georgian attempts to recapture South Ossetia last month.
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Originally Posted by .Czar
Thats good, The two territorys will keep their independance. It will be only a matter of time before the Georgian people realise what a hash of things their president has made, and get rid of him, He is banking on British and American support to get into NATO to save his position. I don't think most of the other NATO partners want him and will block his application.
