Magee Kikaleyshvili. The Georgian side still awaits from Kiev confirm that the ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, now occupying the post of head of the Odessa region of Ukraine, has received Ukrainian citizenship, said the head of the Ministry of justice Thea tsulukiani.

first it was claimed that the head of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko Saakashvili has granted Ukrainian citizenship. Legally, a citizen of Georgia in the case of obtaining the citizenship of another country automatically loses Georgian, However, the entry into force of this provision of the necessary legal and technical procedures.

"We currently expect from the Ukrainian country's response on the issue, and in truth whether Saakashvili received the Ukrainian citizenship. Rather, it is the way it is, because on the page of Mr Poroshenko's message was promulgated with the decision of providing Saakashvili citizenship. However, it is necessary to eliminate all risks that citizenship had not entered into force

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