Saakashvili gets Ukrainian citizenship
The former president of South Caucasus’ Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, has been granted Ukrainian citizenship, a Ukrainian lawmaker announced late on Friday, Sputnik reports.
On Friday, the former Georgian leader met with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to reportedly discuss Saakashvili’s upcoming appointment as the governor of the Odessa region in Ukraine’s southwest. The granting of citizenship is the first step toward the nomination.
"Mikheil Saakashvili became the citizen of Ukraine," Mustafa Nayyem, an Afghan-born member of Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada parliament, said in a Twitter post.
In February, Poroshenko also signed a decree appointing Saakashvili as his non-staff aide.