According to BBC News...Georgia and Russia have blamed each other after an effort to bring them together in Geneva for talks about their war over South Ossetia failed.
The UN, EU and OSCE were hosting what would have been the first low-level talks between the two states since the conflict in early August.
The rival delegations did not formally meet during the day.
An EU official said the talks had been suspended until 18 November because of "procedural difficulties".
The talks had been aimed at encouraging security in the Caucasus, following the truce between Moscow and Tbilisi.
In August, Russia ousted Georgian troops trying to regain South Ossetia and it later recognised both that region and Abkhazia, another breakaway Georgian territory, as independent states.
In a separate development, the International Court of Justice has ordered Georgia and Russia to protect civilians from ethnic discrimination in both regions.
Mutual blame:
"The Russians and the Georgians were not in a formal meeting at the same time, they weren't in the same room at the same time," US Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs Daniel Fried told reporters after the talks move failed.
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