Member of the parliamentary majority in the country, the people's choice Gedevan Popkhadze expressed condolences to the Ukrainian people in connection with the appointment of Georgian ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili to the post of head of the Odessa region.

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.

"I have the opportunity to congratulate Saakashvili's appointment, but can't congratulate the citizens of Odessa. I sympathize with the Ukrainian people and Ukraine. For me the fate of the Ukrainians, and I am very sorry that the people that the Georgian people were, as a yoke, and from which we got rid of, now put on the neck of the Ukrainian people ", - quotes Popkhadze the Agency on the first day of the week.

Thus the people's Deputy expressed hope that " very soon the Ukrainian political spectrum will understand that it is necessary for Ukraine "." Saakashvili will find the pier, which deserves, " said Popkhadze.

Saakashvili took part in Ukrainian " euromaidan ", which led to the change of power in Ukraine in February 2014, he actively support the new course of Kiev. In February of the current year was declared that Poroshenko has signed the order about appointment of Saakashvili your freelance assistant, as well as a decree appointing him Chairman of the Advisory international Council of reforms Under the President of Ukraine.

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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