The office of Georgia’s chief prosecutor has not yet received a reply from the Ukrainian Prosecutor-General’s Office to its request for the extradition of the former president, Mikheil Saakashvili, First Deputy Chief Prosecutor Irakli Shotadze said.
"It is a long while since we dispatched to Kiev our first request for the extradition of Mikheil Saakashvili to Georgia. We have not received a reply to this day. Then we sent another such request. No answer at this point, either," TASS cited him.
Shotadze suspects that the Prosecutor-General’s Office is reluctant to cooperate with Georgia on the issue. In the meantime, he said under international treaties and previously achieved bilateral agreements, Ukraine is obliged to start the extradition of persons who are on Georgia’s wanted list.
The office of Georgia’s chief prosecutor on February 17 said it had formally asked Ukraine to detain Saakashvili and extradite him to Georgia. "The issue is in the consideration phase. We are making extradition-related checks. We have neither dismissed nor sustained the extradition request," Ukraine’s Deputy Prosecutor-General Vitaly Kasko said.
