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.

　　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."