Minister of foreign Affairs of Georgia: the decision of Saakashvili lose citizenship inadequately

Maggie Kikaleyshvili. Minister of foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili considers the decision of ex-President Mikhail Saakashvili to accept Ukrainian citizenship and, according to the laws of Georgia, to renounce Georgian, inadequate in relation to the presidential institution and the country in General.

on the first day weekend the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko has granted Ukrainian Saakashvili citizenship, and signed the order on its appointment of the Odessa Governor and showed the officials in Odessa. Legally Georgia, in case of obtaining of citizenship of another state, a citizen automatically loses Georgian, however, the entry into force of this provision the necessary legal and technical procedures.

"How big was the project of the reformers, As would have been a great idea about the so-called reforms in Ukraine, which, due to the latest information is in doubt and there are many reviews on this issue, when the head of Georgia refuses Georgian citizenship, I think, because it is a disrespectful attitude towards the presidential institution and in General to Georgia as a state," - said Tamar Beruchashvili correspondents and added That Ukraine has a sovereign decision, which no one has the right to interfere.

All members of the Georgian government negatively assess the decision of the former President. While the Georgian authorities emphasize That the relations between Ukraine and Georgia will not worsen.

"The appointment of Saakashvili to the post (head of the Odessa oblast) is a solution to the Ukraine. As for dual citizenship, it has its procedures. Wait, of course I can't speak instead of the President, but yesterday the Head of state said That he believes the decision Saakashvili presidential insult of the Institute and its state. It is highly unfortunate That the former head of Georgia has changed nationality for the position, " said Secretary of the state security Council Irina Imerlishvili.

Georgia Saakashvili left after the inauguration of the new President Giorgi Margvelashvili in November 2013. The chief Prosecutor's office of Georgia in absentia charged him in several criminal cases, as well as among them of embezzlement of about $ 5 million of state funds for personal needs. Later Saakashvili was declared wanted in Georgia. He previously stated That he wants to return to power together with its own team on the results of the elections of 2016.


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