“I don’t want to end this speech today, April 9, on the day of strengthening our independence, without mentioning the current struggle of our Ukrainian friends and expressing solidarity with them! I believe that today, as a sign of solidarity, it is necessary to immediately return the ambassador to Kiev,” the president said.
April 8 statement in support of Ukraine due with the situation in Donbass accepted and the Georgian Parliamentary Committee on Foreign Relations.
“Georgia and Ukraine are bound by special relations, friendship and strategic partnership, and therefore we reaffirm Georgia’s strong support for the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Ukraine,” the statement reads.
The document also says that Georgia welcomes the deepening of relations between NATO and Ukraine and supports a more active participation of the Alliance in the Black Sea region as a factor in increasing stability.
- On April 22, 2020 it became known that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky proposed to the ex-president of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili take the post of Deputy Prime Minister for Reforms. There were no votes in the Rada, and on May 7 Zelensky appointed Saakashvili chairman Reform Executive Committee and member of the National Reform Council.
- On May 8, information appeared that Georgia recalls its ambassador from Ukraine Teimuraz Sharashenidze for consultations. Georgian Prime Minister Giorgi Gakharia said that the diplomat was summoned to Tbilisi to “undergo consultations on the topic how to protect a relationship [с Украиной] from adventurers“.
- The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry summons the ambassador for consultations called “common practice in diplomatic work “and expressed the opinion that for Ukrainian-Georgian relations there is no threat.
- Several criminal cases were opened against Saakashvili in Georgia. Georgian courts passed several sentences in absentia to the ex-president, in particular, in January 2018 he was sentenced to three years in prison in the case of unlawful pardon of four citizens, and in June of the same year, Saakashvili was found guilty in the case of the beating of parliamentary deputy Valery Gelashvili in 2005 and sentenced to six years.
- Saakashvili himself calls the charges against him “completely fictitious” and believes that “the regime that has usurped power in Georgia today is doomed.”
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