Ukrainian Ambassador to Georgia Vasyl Tsybenko has been summoned to the Georgian Foreign Ministry to provide explanations about ex-Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili's appointment as chief of the Ukrainian presidential advisors council, Georgian media reported on Feb. 15.
Saakashvili is wanted in Georgia.
The Georgian Foreign Ministry said, according to media reports, that Georgian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikheil Ukleba, in turn, has been instructed to demand official explanations on Saakashvili’s appointment in Ukraine.
Saakashvili was declared wanted by the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on several counts. The Prosecutor General’s Office told the media recently that it was expecting Interpol to meet its Red Notice request for Saakashvili.
Meanwhile, Georgian media reported on Feb. 14, citing Saakashvili’s defense attorney Otar Kakhidze, that President of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly, U.S. Congressman Mike Turner had urged Interpol to reject the request filed by the Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office.
Kakhidze also said that Elmar Brok, chairman of the European Parliament’s foreign affairs committee, had referred a similar letter to Interpol.
