The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown urges Georgia and Russia to agree on an immediate ceasefire over South Ossetia.
According to the prime minister's office on Sunday, Brown said that he had held talks on the hostilities via telephone with the French President Nicolas Sarkozy and the UN Chief Ban Ki-moon, AFP reported.
A spokesman for the premiers office said, "We will continue to press for international action to help bring this conflict to an end, and we urge both parties to agree an immediate ceasefire."
Elsewhere, the British Foreign Secretary David Miliband for his part discussed the situation in South Ossetia with the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as well as a number of EU foreign ministers.
Georgia said on Sunday that it had ordered its forces to stop fighting in South Ossetia, and had apparently offered to talk with Moscow to end the conflict.
The hostilities began when Georgian military forces launched a large-scale military offensive against South Ossetia on Thursday evening, just hours before the 2008 Olympic Games kicked off in China.
Russia responded by sending forces to the region.
South Ossetia is officially a part of Georgia but a large number of its population of have Russian passports and have strong links with North Ossetia which is a Russian territory.
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