SUKHUMI, July 29 (RIA Novosti) - Abkhazia's parliament adopted a statement Saturday calling on Russia to protect the self-proclaimed Georgian republic as a Georgian police operation in the Kodori Gorge continues.

Georgian troops were moved to the the Kodori Gorge July 25 to disarm a rebellious militia unit led by Emzar Kvitsiani. Georgia said it was a police operation, but later admitted army units were also involved. The gorge in the north of the former Soviet republic, where most of the population hold Russian passports, is the Georgian-controlled territory and the de facto border with Abkhazia.

Parliament is calling on "the United Nations, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, the Group of Friends of the UN Secretary General and Russia to force Georgia as an aggressor state to comply with its obligations on the Abkhazian-Georgian conflict resolution."

Authors of the statement said Georgia's act meant aggression against Abkhazia, violation of its territorial integrity, political independence and sovereignty and an attempt to use the gorge as a beachhead for further military invasion in the republic.

Abkhazia's Security Council considered the situation Saturday and outlined a number of security-building measures.

Council Secretary Stanislav Lakoba said international organizations and collective peacekeeping forces had acknowledged that the 1994 Moscow ceasefire and disengagement agreement had been broken and demanded that monitors be sent to the gorge.

Lakoba described the current situation in the gorge as "calm."