The Foreign Ministry responded to the message about the detention of a Ukrainian in Georgia
Kyiv • UNN
The embassy of Ukraine in Georgia checks reports of detention of a citizen of Ukraine during protests. Official requests were sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to establish the identity and confirm the citizenship of the detainee.
The embassy of Ukraine in Georgia checks information about the detention of a citizen of Ukraine during the protests in Georgia. Official requests were sent to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to verify the citizenship of this person.
This was announced by foreign ministry spokesman Georgy Tihy during a briefing, reports UNN.
As for Georgia. They asked about our citizen. We have seen reports about the powerful Georgian TV channel Rustavi 2 that law enforcement agencies have detained a citizen of Ukraine. Our embassy in Georgia is in contact, communicating with lawyers and journalists of this channel to verify this fact, confirm or deny this information
he noted that Ukraine is aware of this situation and all requests, communication takes place in order to identify the citizenship of this person.
In addition, our foreign diplomatic institution sent official requests to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia to verify this information and establish the identity of this alleged detainee. We are talking about checking the citizenship of this person
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Georgian opposition TV channel Rustavi 2 reported that on the evening of December 5 in Tbilisi, the police detained a citizen of Ukraine as part of an investigation into protest actions.
in Georgia, a court arrested the leader of the opposition coalition "for change" Niku Gvaramia for 12 days.
recall
Georgian president Salome Zurabishvili declared the parliamentary elections invalid on October 26 due to massive violations. after the official results of the elections, according to which the ruling Georgian Dream party won an absolute majority of seats in Parliament, protests began.
