To the post of first Deputy Minister of justice of Ukraine has appointed a foreigner, informs Ukrainian magazine. It will be Georgians Gia Getsadze, which in 2003-2005 he held the post of Minister of justice in the government of Mikhail Saakashvili.

about This said the former head of Georgia in Facebook: " My friend Gia Getsadze was appointed first Deputy Minister of justice of Ukraine. He goes to this office as Dean of the law faculty of the University of Elijah in Tbilisi, and prior to this He held senior positions in the government of Georgia ".

This is the third appointment of the former Saakashvili's team on an important position in Ukraine: in the new government of Ukraine Oleksandr Kvitashvili was headed by the Ministry of health of Ukraine, and Eka Zguladze became the first Deputy head of the Ministry of internal Affairs.
December 2, 2014, the Ukrainian Parliament approved the composition of the government. The Ministers were appointed 3 foreigner: head of the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine became a U.S. citizen of Ukrainian origin Natalie Jaresko, head of the Ministry of economic development - the Lithuanian aivaras Abromavicius, head of the Ministry of health - a citizen of Georgia Alexander Kvitashvili.

Ukrainian law prohibits foreigners to work in the Executive branch. Because of this, for a couple of hours before the vote in Parliament on the nomination of Ministers Poroshenko has signed the order on granting these people the citizenship of Ukraine.

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