Georgian Foreign Ministry on why 2 Georgian sailors are unable to leave Libya
Georgian sailors have been unable to leave Libya since January 2019. Photo: vesselfinder.com.
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The Georgian Foreign Ministry has responded to a briefing of the family members of two Georgian sailors who have been unable to leave Libya for two months, saying that the restriction is related to legal procedures and the death of another Georgian sailor back in January.
Georgian sailor David Razmadze went missing from the Turkish ship MV Dogan Bey in Libya while on night guard on January 7, 2019.
He was found dead by law enforcement officers on January 21 and was transported to Georgia on March 5.
The two sailors. Raul Takidze and Manuchar Kekelidze, were serving on the same ship and law enforcers say that their being is Libya is mandatory until the investigation is over”, Vladimer Konstantinidi from the Georgian Foreign Ministry reported.
Konstantinidi stated that the Georgian government has provided the sailors with hotel accommodations, lawyers and all necessary conditions.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia advised citizens against going to Libya earlier today.
The Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia reports that 22-year-old Davit Razmadze, a Georgian sailor who disappeared from a ship in Libya on 7 January 2019, has been found dead. Director of the Maritime Transport Agency of Georgia Tamar Ioseliani says his body has been identified.
The lives and health of the sailors are not in danger and their condition is satisfactory, says Georgia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and announces that the ship is on its way to the port of Lome in the republic of Togo.
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