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Prime Minister’s Comment on Tsertsvadze’s Case
2017-01-25 Our statements on Mr. Tsertsvadze's case are crystal clear-Georgia does not extradite its citizens to other countries, especially one with its military bases stationed in our territory. It should have been out of the question in the first place. Over the past two days, our Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze has been in touch with Ukraine's Chief Prosecutor, and we certainly hope that this case will be closed without Tsertsvadze's extradition to Russia. More importantly, however, our opponents want to keep us in self-justification mode. They have engaged their television station, their partner televisions, and a part of the NGO sector, to distract us from the main agenda and keep us proving on end that we are not ruining the country. All this is done by a political force who is largely responsible for the deterioration of the country's security for a decade and for leading the country to failure in the face of provocation, giving the green light to Russia's imperialistic intentions. Moreover, they are accusing us of disrespecting our soldiers. Yet they themselves let half of the soldiers, participants of the conflict in 2008, rot in prison, killing many behind bars, and not so much as transporting the bodies out of the conflict zone. They instigated a heinous provocation in Kodori to slaughter our heroes. Prime Minister's Press Office
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