MOSCOW, August 08, SPA -- A Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman saysthat Moscow opposes an independent European Unionmonitoring mission in Georgia. Andrei Nesterenko says that the deployment of an EUmonitoring force would lead to unnecessary«fragmentation» of international monitoring efforts bythe United Nations and the Organization for Security andCooperation in Europe, according to a report of the Associated Press.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/588351