Moscow - Russia has withdrawn its last troops from western Georgia in accordance with a deal agreed with the European Union, reports said Saturday.

Russian soldiers on Saturday left the Georgian Black Sea port of Poti as well as five checkpoints between Poti and Senaki, Georgian media reports quoted the Georgian authorities and witnesses as saying.

Russian television showed the troops dismantling checkpoints at Poti before leaving in trucks. Around 150 Russian soldiers and ten tanks had been stationed in the port, locals said.

"This proves that the Russian state can strictly keep agreements," Russian Foreign Office spokesman Andrei Nesterenko told the Interfax news agency.

On Monday French President Nicolas Sarkozy, the current holder of the EU's rotating presidency, brokered in Moscow a deal to end Russia's military occupation of Georgia.

Under the deal, Russia was to pull its troops out of Poti by September 15 and retreat from undisputed parts of Georgia within 10 days.

Russian troops will continue to be stationed in what Moscow calls a "buffer zone" around the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The two regions sparked a brief war between Georgia and Russia in August, and Moscow has since recognized their independence.

The European Union is planning to send 200 observers to Georgia as soon as possible, EU External Affairs Commissioner Benita Ferrero- Waldner told Austrian public radio Oe1 on Saturday.

Starting from the "buffer zones," the observers would eventually be stationed all over the Georgia, the commissioner said, although conceded that Russia and the EU still differing ideas about where the monitors should be deployed.

It is still undecided for example whether they will be deployed in South Ossetia and Abkhazia, something Moscow opposes.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying in France's Le Figaro newspaper on Saturday that seeing as South Ossetia and Abkhazia are now "sovereign states" they would have to give their consent before international observers can be deployed there.

Meanwhile, Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev attacked Mikheil Saakashvili on Saturday, accusing the Georgian president of being "a person who is absolutely unpredictable and unfortunately finds himself psychologically unbalanced."

Medvedev made the statement in talks with international experts, according to a statement published by the Russian government website.

"If our colleagues in NATO (military alliance) want to accept such a leader, more power to them!" Medvedev was quoted as saying.

At Friday's experts meeting, Medvedev also called the Georgian head of state "a person that had a number of illnesses and ... who also takes narcotics."

He added that it would be simpler to tolerate Western tendencies in Georgia if "balanced and rational" politicians were governing.

Medvedev had previously called Saakashvili a "political corpse." (dpa)