Contents tagged with Mikheil Saakashvili
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Ukraine denies Saakashvili refugee status for the second time
The State Migration Service has repeatedly refused to consider the former Georgian President and leader of the Movement of New Forces party, Mikheil Saakashvili’s application to obtain refugee status or as a person who needs additional protection, as indicated by his lawyer, Markiyan Halabala.
"Today we received documents from the Migration Service. It is not a refusal to provide additional protection, but a refusal to accept the application," he said. According to him, the refusal was made …
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Saakashvili calls for early parliamentary and presidential elections in Ukraine
Participants of the protest action under the Verkhovna Rada "All-Ukrainian gathering for large-scale political reform" intend to expand their demands and add adopting a law on the impeachment of the President.
"The moment they refuse our conditions, we will have to expand them," said Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the New Forces Movement (Rukh Novyh Sil) on Sunday in Kyiv.
He stated that if the Verkhovna Rada and the President of Ukraine, Petro Poroshenko did not want to listen to the demands …
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Saakashvili: Prosecutor General of Ukraine Lutsenko is preparing my arrest and extradition to Georgia
The leader of the party, Movement of New Forces, Mikheil Saakashvili, stated that the General Prosecutor's Office was preparing documents for his arrest and extradition to Georgia, as indicated on his Facebook page.
"Prosecutor General Lutsenko has started the process of preparing documents with the aim of my arrest and extradition to Georgia for the actions during my presidency," Saakashvili wrote.
On October 24th, Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko stated that the State Migration Service …
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Saakashvili believes the Ukrainian authorities may try to eliminate him
At a rally in Kharkiv, the former Georgian President and former Governor of Odessa Oblast, Mikheil Saakashvili, stated that the Ukrainian authorities might eliminate him, Interfax-Ukraine reports.
"I know for a fact that they [the authorities of Ukraine] will try to get rid of me. They can subdue, deport, even kill me; it's not a problem. I am not afraid of it," Saakashvili said. According to the agency, 700-800 people took part in the rally.
“Let's show all those hucksters on October 17 that …
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Lutsenko: Saakashvili will not be expelled from Ukraine over incident at Shehyni border checkpoint
Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuri Lutsenko has made assurances that Mikheil Saakashvili, leader of the party "Movement of New Forces" (Rukh Novykh Syl) and former head of the Odessa regional administration, will not be expelled from Ukraine and will not be arrested in connection with the incident at the Shehyni border checkpoint.
"As Prosecutor General, I tell you clearly: Saakashvili will not be arrested in relation to this case, [and] Saakashvili cannot be extradited from this country while …
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Saakashvili talks of wiretapping, SBU denies
Former Odessa Governor Mikheil Saakashvili said that unknown persons intended to place a special listening device in his hotel room in Chernivtsi.
“Everything would have been fine if at first my bodyguard hadn’t stopped an attempted break-in – and my bodyguard is a professional… he is well versed in protection against such things – a break-in by people with suitcases specific to the Ukrainian SBU. When they came over, they said, as I recall, that they represent some agency. They tried to come …
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Ministry of Justice of Ukraine: There are no grounds to extradite Saakashvili
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former head of the Odessa Regional State Administration, will not be extradited from Ukraine until the criminal proceedings against him are completed in Georgia, stated the Deputy Minister of Justice Denis Chernyshov in a comment on 112 Ukraine TV channel.
According to Chernyshov, there are no grounds for Saakashvili's extradition at the moment, as the he has not been convicted in Georgia.
“Nothing happened in Ukraine, except for Saakashvili's crossing the border. …
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Ukrainian Justice Ministry: The Prosecutor General’s Office begins extradition check for Saakashvili
The Prosecutor General’s Office (PGO) of Ukraine is examining Georgia’s request for the extradition of former Georgian president and governor of Odessa Mikheil Saakashvili, announced Ukrainian Justice Minister Pavlo Petrenko.
“After receiving this [extradition] request [from Georgia], all the materials were sent to the bodies of the PGO in order to carry out an extradition check. This is a preliminary stage. If it is completed with a positive conclusion, it will be possible to adopt further …
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Poland summons Ukrainian ambassador over Saakashvili
Polish politicians are following the situation around the case of former president of Georgia, former governor of the Odessa region Mikheil Saakashvili. The ambassador of Ukraine was summoned to the Foreign Ministry of Poland, Radio Libert reported.
"The Polish Foreign Ministry summoned the Ukrainian Ambassador to Poland to provide explanations," the report said, citing the Polish MEP Saryusz-Wolski.
A number of Polish media published Saryusz-Wolski's statement. Wolski had arrived in Przemyśl …
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Saakashvili breaks past border guards into Ukrainian territory
Former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and his supporters managed to break through a cordon of Ukrainian border guards who blocked his way at the Shehyni border crossing and denied him entry into Ukraine.
Saakashvili moved forward for some time in a tight ring of escorts, after which he was given a car, NewsOne reports. The politician himself said that he was heading for Lviv.
Ukrainian MP Yuriy Derevyanko commented that after the cordon had been broken, the law enforcement officials …