Saakashvili on recognizing him as a political prisoner in the PACE resolution

The inclusion of me as Putin’s personal prisoner in the historic resolution of the Council of Europe is an accurate description of the situation, but I cannot say that I am happy about it, writes the third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, on the social network.

This is how he responds to the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, which calls for reconsideration of cases and the release of political prisoners who oppose Russian President Putin, including Mikheil Saakashvili.

“Including me as Putin’s personal prisoner in the historic resolution of the Council of Europe is an accurate description of the situation, but I cannot say that I am happy about it. This harms the international reputation of Georgia, and I believe that in this difficult situation, Georgia suffers more from internal confrontation and, on the contrary, it needs consolidation and a search for a common language,” Saakashvili writes.

Recall that the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) calls for a review of cases and the release of anti-Putin political prisoners in the Russian Federation and other countries, including a citizen of Ukraine and former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili. This is stated in the resolution of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe entitled “Further escalation of the aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine”, which PACE adopted yesterday.

The resolution, along with other issues, refers to the repressive situation in the Russian Federation.