Contingents are stationed in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, but tensions between Russia and Georgia have flared in the last week over the rotation of the force in South Ossetia, with the two countries trading in mutual recriminations and accusations of military build-ups.
The Georgian parliamentarians said the legislative body would adopt in late June or beginning of July a resolution that would rule the presence of the Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zones illegal and would draft a document of Georgia's withdrawal from the Commonwealth of Independent States.
"There can be no better arguments to proclaim them [the Russian peacekeepers] as illegal," said Givi Targamadze, the head of the parliament's committee for defense and security. "We see that they are the aggressive party in the conflicts and in exchange for our peaceful initiatives are imposing war on us."
A Russian peacekeeping battalion has been stationed in South Ossetia along with Georgian and South Ossetian contingents since an end to fighting in the early 1990s after the region tried to secede from Georgia.
