Ex-President Saakashvili vows to come back to Georgia in ‘several months’
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Georgia’s third President Mikheil Saakashvili, who is wanted in his homeland, says that he will come back to Georgia in several months to ‘end the leadership’ of the Georgian Dream government.
Saakashvili has told Mtavari Arkhi that he is holding consultations with politicians and other citizens of Georgia regarding the arrival.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky restored the Ukrainian citizenship of Saakashvili at the end of May 2019, which had been revoked by ex-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
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- Ukraine’s president Petro Poroshenko appointed Saakashvili as the Odessa Governor in May 2015, but in November 2016 the Georgian ex-President quit the post, accusing Poroshenko of corruption.
- Saakashvili, who served as Georgia’s third president from 2004 to 2007 and again from 2008 to 2013, announced his resignation as Odessa governor at a special press conference on November 7, 2016.
- Saakashvili then said despite his resignation, he would continue his fight against corruption in Ukraine along with "young and honest forces”.
- In 2014 Saakashvili was officially charged for his role in several crimes in Georgia however by the time his case went through court he was already in Ukraine.
- Saakashvili is accused of the violent dispersal of anti-government mass protests on November 7, 2007; unlawful raiding of Imedi television company by riot police and the illegal take-over of property owned by late media tycoon Badri (Arkadi) Patarkatsishvili.
- Prior to his appointment as the Governor of Odessa, Saakashvili received Ukrainian citizenship.
- Receiving Ukrainian citizenship meant Saakashvili’s Georgian citizenship was automatically revoked.
- In July 2017 Poroshenko issued a decree to annul Ukrainian citizenship for Saakashvili and since then the former president had had no citizenship (until 2019).
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Georgia continues to demand the extradition of former President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili from Ukraine, despite the fact his Ukrainian citizenship was reinstated earlier this week, the Georgian Chief Prosecutor’s Office says.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has restored the Ukrainian citizenship to ex-President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, who served as the Odesa Governor in Ukraine between 2015 and 2016 and then went into the opposition of his former ally, now ex-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.
The former president of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili has been deported to Poland after his re-detention in Ukraine yesterday. The Ukrainian border service said Saakashvili was in Ukraine illegally and thus was sent back to the country from which he arrived. Poland's border service has confirmed that Saakashvili is now in Poland.
Former President Mikheil Saakashvili, who has plans to come back to Georgia in several months despite, has accused his former ally, now a leader of the European Georgia opposition party, Giga Bokeria of doing “everything against Georgian and Christian traditions.”
The Ukrainian Supreme Court has dismissed the complaint of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and ruled that the country’s migration and border agencies did not violate the law when they deported Saakashvili from Ukraine to Poland back in February 2018.
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The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry has urged its public servants to refrain from making any statements on Georgia which may spark tension in the country.