Polish diplomat Paweł Herczyński, who is the EU's ambassador to Georgia, on Monday said he had submitted a statement of protest to Georgian authorities calling for the release of Saakashvili so that he can receive medical treatment in Poland.
In an interview with public broadcaster Polish Radio, Saakashvili’s spokesman, Giorgi Khaladze, on Monday thanked Poland and other EU countries for their support of the former president, whose condition he said was alarming.
Radio Poland's Michał Owczarek reports...
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