Members of the European Parliament reiterated their call on the Georgian authorities to release former president Mikheil Saakashvili and allow him to undergo proper medical treatment abroad.
“{We] reiterate our call on the Georgian authorities to release the former president Mikheil Saakashvili and allow him to undergo proper medical treatment abroad on humanitarian grounds and as a means of reducing political polarization,” reads Georgia AA implementation report with compromised amendments approved by the Foreign Committee of the European Parliament.
The Foreign Committee of the European Parliament supported the report on the implementation of the EU Association Agreement by Georgia with compromise amendments. The report has 47 supporters, 5 opponents, while 2 MEPs abstained.
For the record, Saakashvili’s lawyer Shalva Khachapuridze stated on a live broadcast of the Georgian Times that the third president of Georgia had been diagnosed with tuberculosis and dementia.
