MOSCOW, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Saturday signed a peace plan for settling the conflict between Georgia and its breakaway region of South Ossetia, the Kremlin press secretary said in the Black Sea resort of Sochi.

At a conference with the permanent members of the Russian Security Council, the Russian president said "he had just signed the settlement plan consisting of the six earlier agreed-upon principles," Natalya Timakova was quoted by the Interfax news agency as saying.

The press secretary said the participants in the conference discussed the situation surrounding the Georgian-South Ossetian conflict, as well as "ways of the post-conflict settlement and measures to overcome the consequences of the humanitarian disaster."

The document, which was endorsed Tuesday by the presidents of Russia and France in Moscow, bans the use of force and any military action, and envisages free access to humanitarian aid.

Under the agreement, Georgian troops should return to their bases, and the Russian military should pull back to its previous positions.

The peace plan was signed by the leaders of Georgia's breakawayregions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia on Thursday in Moscow, and then by Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Friday in Tbilisi.

The Kremlin said Friday that Russia will put its signature under the agreement only after Georgia signs it.
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