Mr. Saakashvili made this proposal in Tbilisi on Thursday.
"Our 500 best peacekeepers will stay in Georgian settlements to protect Georgian people," he said.
Meanwhile, the Georgian leader claimed his readiness to withdraw all other Georgian units from the conflict area and deploy them in Gori (administrative center of the Shida Kartli district neighboring on South Ossetia).
The head of the Georgian state said that "today Georgia was faced with the possibility of the beginning of a serious conflict." "We must realize that if a new conflict starts, the Georgian people will have no right to defeat. Defeat means destruction of Georgia and the Georgian nation. That's why I feel the responsibility and want to use all chances for peace," Mr. Saakashvili said.
Georgian Deputy State Security Minister Gigi Ugulava said earlier that the Georgian armed units had seized Partskhanakana heights in the Tskhinvali region in small hours on Thursday.
"Seizing the positions, which were controlled by Ossetian units, we provided security for the Georgian villages because all directions were attacked from this height. Now we can speak about cease-fire and peace in the region," the Novosti-Georgia agency quoted Mr. Ugulava as saying.
Georgian Interior Minister Irakly Okruashvili told the Rustavi-2 TV company on the phone that last night Georgian servicemen captured the strategic heights in Partskhanakana. Georgian positions by the relief road linking Maloye and Bolshoye Liakhvy settlements had been attacked from these heights, he said.
"Here we found personal belongings, clothes, food and many weapons of Cossacks," the minister reported.
"The so-called 'third force' comprised mercenaries and terrorists from the North Caucasus. Almost all of them were eliminated last night," Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania said commenting on the seizure of strategic heights.
Meanwhile, Irina Gagloyeva, chairperson of the South Ossetian information and press committee, told RIA Novosti on the phone that "Georgian bandit units were breaking into Tskhinvali from the north". Tskhinvali is under mortar and machine-gun fire, she added.
In her words, a teenager was killed and a woman badly wounded. Moreover, a shell hit a dwelling house killing three people.
Georgian armed units blocked a motorcade of armored vehicles with Russian peacekeepers near Prisi, an officer on duty of the operative staff of the joint peacekeeping forces said on the phone. These peacekeepers were sent to Prisi in line with the recent Joint Control Commission's decision to reinforce peacekeepers' checkpoints, he reported.
The Georgian units blocked the exit from Prisi and prohibit Russians from moving to the relief road at gunpoint, the officer noted.
At the moment the peacekeepers are waiting for the instructions of their commanders, he added.
Head of the OSCE mission in Tbilisi Roy Reeve said, on his part, that the mission had no information on the victims in the conflict area.
Mr. Reeve doubted the necessity to involve international peacekeeping forces in the conflict settlement.
Nobody addressed OSCE to this effect and no international organization can assume these functions, he said.
Moreover, he criticized actions of the joint Georgian-Russian-North Ossetian peacekeeping forces in the Tskhinvali region. As a matter of fact, the peacekeeping battalions of Russia, Georgia and North Ossetia act separately, Roy Reeve noted. In his words, they failed to stop illegal armed units.
