Opposition protesters in Georgia have failed to stop the newly-elected parliament holding its opening session.

Several thousand protesters, complaining that last month's election was rigged, heckled MPs as they entered the parliament building in Tbilisi.
Riot police with water cannon were stationed nearby but did not intervene.
The election delivered a crushing victory to the governing party of Georgia's pro-western president, Mikhail Saakashvili.
Call for unity
The BBC's Matthew Collin, in Tbilisi, says opposition leaders did not manage to inspire enough people to take to the streets to mount a serious challenge.
Organizers of the rally announced they would end the demonstration early after the patriarch of Georgia's Orthodox church made an appearance and called for unity.
Both the United Opposition Council and the Labor Party have vowed to boycott parliament.
Saakashvili is keen to press ahead with his radical reformist agenda, with guaranteed support from a parliament dominated by his party, says our correspondent.
The president is also hoping to take Georgia closer to the West, and to join NATO.
Russia's new president met Friday with leaders of ex-Soviet republics, warning Ukraine and Georgia not to lead their countries into NATO, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, AP reported.
President Dmitry Medvedev told the leaders of the two nations that joining the Western alliance would hurt their relations with Russia and seriously increase tension on the edges of the former Soviet Union, according to Lavrov.
Medvedev delivered his message during one-on-one talks with several presidents from the 12-nation Commonwealth of Independent States at the lavish Konstantin Palace in Strelna, on the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg, before what was billed as an informal summit meeting later in the day.
To Georgian President Saakashvili, Medvedev reiterated Russia's opposition to joining NATO, Lavrov told reporters. ""The somewhat artificial inclusion of Georgia into NATO will lead to a spiral of very, very negative confrontation,"" he said.
In his session with Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, the Russian leader suggested that Ukrainian membership in NATO would violate a 1997 friendship treaty between the Slavic neighbors, Lavrov said. He said the treaty stipulates that neither nation should pose a security threat to the other.
In response to Saakashvili's push to bring his small Caucasus Mountain into NATO, Russia has stepped up support for Georgia's separatist region of Abkhazia, drawing Georgian claims that Russia is moving toward annexing the province. Both nations claim the other is preparing for the use of force in the region, creating fears that conflict could erupt.
In brief remarks before closed-door talks with Medvedev, Saakashvili said of Russia and Georgia: ""I don't think there are any insoluble problems, but there are many that are unsolved.""
Medvedev also said he believes their disputes can be resolved and that they can do it without outside help — an apparent reference to Western criticism of Russia's actions.
(Source: BBC)