Foreign Policy: “Saakashvili does not need a little help from his friends”

Charging Georgia’s ex-president Mikheil Saakashvili has led to different reactions from Georgia’s western partners.

In an opinion piece, associated researcher scholar in war and peace studies Lincoln Mitchell highlighted the main points why was necessary to charge Georgia’s former leader.

His article, published on the Foreign Policy website, emphasized the fact the Georgian Government essentially had to choose between domestic political needs and keeping their foreign allies satisfied.

The decision to press charges against the former president was not an easy one – and given the international reaction, it might not have been the right diplomatic choice – but it was made with good reason. Georgia's friends should understand these motives and encourage the Government to live up to the highest standards of due process, he wrote.

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