Georgia's Saakashvili appointed aide to Ukraine leader

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Kiev (AFP) - Mikheil Saakashvili, the former fiercely pro-Western leader of Georgia, has been appointed an aide to the Ukraine president to help the war-torn country on its path to reform, officials said.

In his new job as the head of the Advisory International Council of Reforms, the 47-year-old former president will help implement best practices and build global support for the ex-Soviet country.

"Mikheil will become a representative of Ukraine abroad and, simultaneously, a representative of the international community in Ukraine," President Petro Poroshenko said in a statement.

Saakashvili for his part said Ukrainians deserved a better future free of corruption and injustice.

http://news.yahoo.com/georgias-saakashvili-appointed-aide-ukraine-leader-095756606.html

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1. The tie-eater.

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2. Georgia Summons Ukraine Ambassador Over Saakashvili Appointment

TBILISI -- Ukraine’s Ambassador to Georgia Vasyl Tsybenko has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry for explanations regarding the appointment of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as the head of the Ukrainian president’s Advisory Council.

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Saakashvili left Georgia after his presidency ended in November 2013.

Officials in Georgia have charged him in absentia with abuse of office and with organizing an attack on a lawmaker.

In August, Georgian Prosecutor-General's Office began seeking an Interpol warrent, or red notice, for Saakashvili.

http://www.rferl.org/content/georgia-summons-ukrainian-ambassador-over-saakashvilis-appointment/26851849.html

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3. Yeah, try this one:

Georgia President Who Ate His Tie Advises Ukrainians How to ‘Capture All of Russia’

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On February 13, Mikheil Saakashvili was appointed chairman of the Consulting International Council for the Reforms for the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in his new homeland—Ukraine. (A disgusted Georgian Foreign Ministry summoned the Ukrainian ambassador and demanded an explanation.)

The newspapers say that his prime responsibility is going to be negotiations on the supply of U.S. arms to Ukraine.

Not long before that happy change of events took place, the ex-Georgian president went on Ukrainian television to give his first nugget of advice. With happy smiles and witty winks, he explained to the gloomy and suspicious talk show host of the TV-24 Channel his vision for the most urgent challenge the Ukrainians believe they are facing—how “Russian aggression against Ukraine” can be stopped.

Recalling his own experience as a commander-in-chief of Georgian army, Mr. Saakashvili said that “The only thing that stopped Russians was … that Americans declared that they would put up into the air their aviation, they sent Sixth Fleet to the Georgian shores, they had passed Bosporus and they really said to the Russians: ‘Here is the red line, you will never go into the capital (Tbilisi), you will not only not kill Saakashvili but won’t destroy their state and will not destroy their government.'”

http://observer.com/2015/02/georgia-president-who-ate-his-tie-advises-ukrainians-how-to-capture-all-of-russia/