A senior Georgian opposition leader on Thursday called on President Mikheil Saakashvili to resign after a European report blamed Tbilisi for triggering a war last year with Russia.

"The report is yet more proof that we have an irresponsible and helpless leader who endangers the country's stability and leads the country to a dead end. There is no doubt that such a leader has no right to govern the country," Burjanadze said in a statement.

The report, released Wednesday, said Georgia had sparked the five-day war with Russia by attacking the rebel South Ossetia region but also accused Moscow of violating international law during conflict.

Georgia's opposition has been calling for Saakashvili's resignation for months and last spring held weeks of protests that paralysed central Tbilisi.

Saakashvili has refused to resign and analysts say it's unlikely the opposition, divided by infighting and lacking a single leader, will be able to force his ousting before the end of his second term in 2013. 

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