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Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky have discussed the issue of former Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who is a citizen of Ukraine, during a recent phone conversation.

Zelensky tweeted that he told Garibashvili that Saakashvili’s rights ‘must be fully protected’ in accordance with international standards and that the relatives of the former president and Ukrainian doctors should be allowed to see the former president in Gldani Prison No.18 hospital.

The Administration of the Government of Georgia cited Garibashvili as saying that Saakashvili’s health, like all prisoners in Georgia, is being monitored by highly-qualified doctors round the clock.

Garibashvili also said that lawyers and family members have never been barred from seeing the former president in prison.