在9月1日的紧急会议上，欧盟领导人拒绝继续PCA对话，除非俄罗斯将作战部队从格鲁吉亚分裂分子控制的阿布哈希亚和南奥塞梯地区撤出。
At an emergency meeting on September 1, EU leaders refused to continue the PCA talks until Russia removed its combat units from the Georgian separatist regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.