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UNITED NATIONS — Russia exercised its veto power in the U.N. Security Council and brought an end Monday to the nearly 16-year-old observer mission monitoring a cease-fire between Georgia and its breakaway Abkhazia region.
Russia’s veto late Monday toppled a Western plan to extend the life of the U.N. mission for another year, or even two more weeks, to work out a compromise.
The mission’s mandate was to expire at midnight Monday in New York, requiring about 130 military observers and more than a dozen police to leave.
