Georgia must release Saakashvili from prison for “normalisation of relations” with Ukraine – MP
Pravda Ukraine
The Head of the Servant of the People (Sluha Narodu) party faction, Davyd Arakhamia, has rejected the Georgian authorities’ demand that they extradite Mikheil Saakashvili’s government officials who are now working in the Ukrainian government.
Source: European Pravda, citing Arakhamia’s Telegram
Details: “The pro-Kremlin Georgian authorities are putting forward some demands for the extradition of our citizens to ‘normalise relations’,” Arakhamia said.
He added that for true “normalisation”, Georgia must release Ukrainian citizen Mikheil Saakashvili from prison and return him to Ukraine; stop direct flights with Russia, and stop helping Russia evade sanctions.
“Then, the normalisation of relations will be simple,” the Head of the Servant of the People faction concluded.
On Monday, the Georgian government said that for the “normalisation of relations“, the Ukrainian authorities should extradite to Georgia “criminals who currently hold high positions in its administration”.
Among them, the Georgian side mentioned Zurab Adeishvili, Former Minister of Justice of Georgia who is now Ukraine’s Deputy Prosecutor General, and Giorgi Lortkipanidze, whom Tbilisi accuses of involvement in Mikheil Saakashvili’s illegal crossing of the state border.
Georgian authorities have repeatedly tried to put Adeishvili on the international wanted list. Recently, they were outraged by his presence in the German Bundestag as part of a delegation from Ukraine.
Earlier, the speaker of the Georgian Parliament demanded an apology from Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his Moldovan counterpart Maia Sandu for “lying” about Saakashvili.
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