TBILISI – Georgia has threatened to revoke pro-Western former president Mikheil Saakashvili’s citizenship after he was granted a Ukrainian passport and appointed as governor of the strategic Odessa region.Georgian President Giorgi Margvelashvili said Saakashvili’s move, which according to the constitution, could lead to the loss of Georgian citizenship, “insulted our state.” “The (former) Georgian president should not have given up his Georgian citizenship,” he said in televised comments late Sunday.The appointment on Saturday of the flamboyant Saakashvili, who fought a war with Russia, as head of Ukraine’s southern coastal region is a pointed signal from Kiev to Moscow that it …read more
Source: AsiaOne
