The president of Georgia's breakaway region says he will call fresh elections to end a standoff with protesters who stormed the parliament building. Locals are angry over a deal with Moscow allowing Russians to buy land.

Protesters in Georgia's Russia-backed breakaway region of Abkhazia declined on Saturday to leave the parliament building which they stormed the previous day, a departure proposed by the region's president as a condition for resigning.

Protesters stormed the parliament of the Russian-backed breakaway Georgian region of Abkhazia on Friday and opposition politicians demanded the resignation of the self-styled president over an unpopular investment agreement with Moscow.