The European Parliament has called for the peacekeeping mandate for Russian troops in the breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia to be revised. The parliament says as change is needed in light of escalating tensions between Russia and Georgia. In the strongest European Union criticism to date, the assembly has said the Russian troops have "lost their role of neutral and impartial peacekeepers." In a resolution passed Thursday, the chamber also demanded the EU sends its own border mission into the conflict zone in Abkhazia. Some 2,500 Russian troops are stationed in the breakaway region with strong ties to Moscow, and an additional 300 soldiers arrived to restore rail links with the southern Russian city of Sochi, which will host the 2014 Winter Olympics. ...
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