UN mission monitoring situation around Saakashvili

11:38, 13.09.2017 1 min read

The UN monitoring mission on human rights in Ukraine is monitoring the situation around the deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship and the return of the leader of the New Forces Movement political party, ex-head of Odesa Regional State Administration Mikheil Saakashvili to Ukraine.

"As for the issue of Mr. Saakashvili. We are part of the UN system and we are aware of this situation, like other UN organizations. We are also monitoring this situation, its details," Head of the UN Human Rights monitoring mission Fiona Frazer said at a briefing in Kyiv on Tuesday, answering the question whether the organization is keeping track of the situation around Saakashvili's deprivation of Ukrainian citizenship and the circumstances of crossing the Ukrainian border.