AKIPRESS.COM - Kiev has refused to extradite former Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to Georgia, citing the request is “politically motivated,” the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office said on its website Wednesday.
“The Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s Office has come to the conclusion there is a risk that the request of extraditing Saakashvili made by the competent organs of Georgia is politically motivated,” RIA-Novosti quoted the Prosecutor General’s Office as stating.
Saakashvili is currently the chairman of Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko’s International Advisory Council on Reforms.
The Prosecutor General’s Office also said that Saakashvili’s extradition would be in violation of human rights and fundamental freedom that was accepted by the 1950 Convention.
“In such conditions the General Prosecutor’s Office as Ukraine’s central organ on issues of extradition has made the decision to deny the extradition [request] of M. Saakashvili and has informed its Georgian colleagues,” the statement reads.