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Saakashvili asked Zelensky to return him the citizenship of Ukraine

5/22/2019, 6:05:59 PM

The lawyer of the former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Ruslan Chernolutsky, submitted a letter to the administration of the Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky asking him to return the citizenship of Ukraine to him.


“All lawyers argue that depriving me of Ukrainian citizenship is illegal, since, according to the Constitution of Ukraine, you cannot deprive citizenship of a citizen of Ukraine, and under international law you cannot leave a person without any citizenship,” Interfax-Ukraine cites excerpts from a letter

In addition, Saakashvili reiterated that he was not seeking any “positions and preferences” in Ukraine.

Earlier, Saakashvili said he was going to return to Ukraine, because injustice was committed against him. According to him, he wants to return to the country in order to "advise young people."