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Georgia has offered South Ossetian separatists an immediate ceasefire following days of heavy fighting.
Following clashes on Thursday, Mikheil Saakashvili, Georgia's president, said he had ordered Georgian forces not to return fire.
In a televised address, Saakashvili said: "I offer you an immediate ceasefire and the immediate beginning of talks."
He repeated an offer of "full autonomy" for the breakaway region.
Jonah Hull, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Moscow, described the offer as an "olive branch".
Fighting between Georgian soldiers and forces from the breakaway region of South Ossetia wounded up to 20 people on Thursday.
Both sides blame each other for the conflict.
Casualties
The de facto government in Tskhinvali, the South Ossetian capital, said that 18 people had been wounded by Georgian fire.
Marina Salukvadze, a spokeswoman for Temur Yakobashvili, the Georgian re-integration minister, said two Georgian servicemen were also wounded after attacks on Georgian positions by South Ossetian forces.
Tensions over South Ossetia and another breakaway Georgian region, Abkhazia, have been rising since Russia said it was establishing formal ties with the separatists.
A Russian envoy has arrived in Tbilisi, Georgia's capital.
South Ossetia said that six people had died in fighting over the weekend.
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Saakashvili repeats his offer of full autonomy for South Ossetia [Reuters]
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