Ukrainian ambassador summoned to Georgia’s foreign ministry

Ukraine’s Ambassador to Ukraine has been summoned to the Georgian Foreign Ministry over the recent appointment of Georgia’s former President Mikhail Saakashvili chairman of the international consultative reform council in Ukraine, local media reported on Sunday, citing sources in the Georgian foreign ministry...

According to media reports, the Ukrainian ambassador is to appear at the Georgian foreign ministry early next week to "provide corresponding explanations." The media also said that Georgian Ambassador to Ukraine Mikhail Ukleba planned find out "the position of Ukraine’s relevant agencies on that matter."

Earlier, Eka Beselia, a leader of the Georgian Dream coalition, who chairs the human rights committee of the Georgian parliament, said that the Ukrainian authorities’ decision to appoint Saakashvili to the post was a "mistake." She said appointing people whose policy was harmful to Georgia would not be in the interests of Ukraine. "Georgia has an especially warm and friendly attitude to the Ukrainian people and Ukraine. I don’t know what reasonable advice Mikhail Saakashvili can give to this country’s president," she said, commenting on the Ukrainian media reports about Saakashvili’s appointment.

"Georgia had to live through many tragic episodes due to Mikhail Saakashvili’s mistakes," Bidzina Ivanishvili, the founder of the Georgian Dream coalition and former Prime Minister of Gerogia, said in an interview with the Kviris Palutra newspaper earlier on Sunday. "I think the appointment of such a man as an adviser in Kiev will bring no good to Ukraine." He noted however that Saakashvili’s appointment "is not a tragedy for the Georgian-Ukrainian relations."

Last spring, Georgia’s Prime Minister Irakly Gabriashvili said he would recommended the Ukrainian government not to heed to Saakashvili’s advice, bearing in mind his radicalism and the "catastrophe he led Georgi to.".......................http://tass.ru/en/world/777739
15/2/15
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