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UN chief: South Ossetia and Gori inaccessible (AP)

 
AP - Humanitarian aid groups and U.N. monitors are unable to reach large parts of Georgia due to insecure conditions despite a French-brokered cease-fire, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday. (link)

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