The Administration of the President of Ukraine confirmed the information on the signing by the head of state of the decree to deprive Mikheil Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship.
President Petro Poroshenko has issued a decree deprivind Georgia's ex-president and a former governor of Odesa Regional Administration, Mikheil Saakashvili, of Ukrainian citizenship, the State Migration Service of Ukraine said on its website on Julay 26.
"The president of Ukraine issued a decree on the loss of Ukrainian citizenship. The Saakashvili materials were provided by the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine, processed by the State Migration Service of Ukraine, sent for consideration to the citizenship commission under the president of Ukraine, and duly considered at a commission meeting. Under the constitution, the president makes a decision on the loss of Ukrainian citizenship based on conclusions of the citizenship commission," the statement says.
The decree stripping Saakashvili of Ukrainian citizenship is not on the website of the Ukrainian president.Saakashvili received Ukrainian citizenship under President Poroshenko's decree of May 30, 2015. On the same day the president appointed him as head of Odesa Regional State Administration.
