The Georgian Parliament called on the international community to provide tangible support in Tbilisi's drive to internationalize peacekeeping efforts, otherwise, it said, Georgia would have to unilaterally take measures and demand Russian peacekeepers withdrawal, reported Civil Georgia.
The statement passed by the Parliament on July 11 with 103 votes to 0 says that after the recent provocative steps Russia can no longer play a peacekeeper's role in the region.
In the statement the Parliament calls on the international community to "support Georgia's peaceful initiatives, which envisage change of the existing peacekeeping format and immediate replacement of so called [Russian] peacekeeping forces with international police force."
"Otherwise, the Georgian side will be forced to undertake appropriate legal measures in the nearest future for de-legitimization and for prompt withdrawal of the armed forces of the Russian Federation from the conflict zones."
Georgian officials said last month they had been asked by their U.S. and European partners not to hurry with demanding Russian peacekeepers' withdrawal and to give them a chance to work on the matter with the Russian side.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in late June after talks with President Saakashvili in Berlin, that Russian peacekeeping troops in Abkhazia should remain until an alternative was found.
Tbilisi is proposing internationally managed joint Georgian-Abkhaz police force in Gali and Ochamchire districts of Abkhazia instead of the Russian peacekeeping forces.
The Georgian Parliament also said in the statement that violation of Georgia's airspace over South Ossetia by the Russian military aircraft and subsequent admission of this fact by Moscow had further demonstrated Russia's inability to perform its peacekeeping duties in the region.
"Through this unprecedented admission of an act of aggression, the Russian authorities are trying to show to the international community, that they allow themselves to carry out military actions openly with ignorance of international norms," the Parliament's statement reads.
"The armed forces of the Russian Federation are openly assisting illegal armed groups of separatist regimes and by doing so they are actually supporting terrorism on the territory of Georgia."