1.   But after the Russian foreign minister, Igor Ivanov, affixed his signature, he said that the participation of Russian peacekeepers was not yet assured.

2.   But he emphasized the Russian position, also stated by Grachev, that any Russian peacekeepers must be under the command of the United Nations, not NATO.

3.   But in Moscow, Victor Chermomyrdin, the Russian envoy who helped broker the peace deal, said Saturday no Russian peacekeepers would be under NATO command.

4.   But one thing the U.N. force and Russian peacekeepers have not done is to provide any meaningful safety for Georgians.

5.   By the time a solution for the command problem is found, the Russian peacekeepers would be superfluous.

6.   Clark said that one of the three Serbs shot dead by Russian peacekeepers in eastern Kosovo last week was carrying a police identification card.

7.   In an interview on Thursday, the Azerbaijani ambassador to the United States, Hafiz Pashayev, expressed reservations about placing Russian peacekeepers around Nagorno-Karabakh.

8.   It was the abruptness of the Russian troop movements and the fact that they followed a deadlock about the role of Russian peacekeepers in Kosovo that alarmed NATO.

9.   Russian peacekeepers monitor the border with the separatist Georgian province of Abkhazia.

10.   Russian peacekeepers and U.N. observers are now stationed in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia.