Georgia has decided not to appeal against the appointment of Saakashvili Governor of Odessa

Official Tbilisi has decided not to send a note of protest to Kiev in connection with the appointment of former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, the Governor of the Odessa region, said Minister of foreign Affairs of Georgia Tamar Beruchashvili.
The leadership of Ukraine has the sovereign ability to make personnel decisions within their country, she said, at the same time calling it "inappropriate" statements by Saakashvili on the issue of his Georgian citizenship.
"When the former head of Georgia refuses Georgian citizenship, I believe, because it is a disrespectful attitude towards the institution of the President in General, and in Georgia, as a state," said Beruchashvili, reports " news Agency ". First Secretary of the national security Council of Georgia Irina Imerlishvili said that Saakashvili appointed by the Governor of the Odessa region, " forfeited nationality for the position ". In addition, the people's Deputy of the parliamentary majority of Georgia Zviad kvatchantiradze as said Saakashvili, received Ukrainian citizenship automatically loses Georgian. However, Saakashvili himself said that he is not going to renounce Georgian passports. On the first day of the weekend President Poroshenko officially announced the appointment of Saakashvili to the post of head of the Odessa region. Before that Saakashvili officially became a citizen of Ukraine. Recall that Saakashvili at home is charged under four articles of the criminal code, it threatens him with imprisonment for up to eleven years. Ex-President of Georgia considers to waste about 5 million dollars of public funds for personal needs, exceeding their authority in the case of the dispersal of the rally on 7 November 2007, belong to beating Gelashvili and deprivation of life of employees "of the United Bank of Georgia" Sandro Girgvliani in 2006. Saakashvili left Georgia in the days of the inauguration of the new President Giorgi Margvelashvili in November 2013 and since then has not returned home, However, occasionally makes a promise to return, but not to be cooperating with the investigation, and to " save Georgia ".


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