According to Georgian Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani, Tbilisi is ready to return Ambassador Teimuraz Sharashenidze to Kyiv. The diplomat was recalled from Ukraine last year, after former president Mikheil Saakashvili repeatedly called on his Georgian supporters to disobey the authorities, organize defiance actions against the government, and put an end to the rule of the Georgian Dream (GD) party of billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili. At that time, the Georgian authorities argued that those statements by the former president, who lost his Georgian citizenship after becoming a citizen of Ukraine, were interfering in the country’s internal affairs. Moreover, the GD government pointed out, Saakashvili was not speaking as an ordinary citizen of Ukraine but as the official head of the Executive Committee of the National Reform Council under the president of Ukraine.
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Georgian servicemen attend the opening ceremony of the Noble Partner 2020 joint military exercises with NATO forces at the Vaziani training centre outside Tbilisi on Sept. 7, 2020.
