"It was clearly written that the Georgian side is innocent... Before Tsulukiani fought against the Georgian military, I gathered leading lawyers to defend them" | Mikheil Saakashvili on the Hague decision

"It was clearly written that the Georgian side is innocent... While Tsulukiani fought against the Georgian military, I gathered leading lawyers to defend them," the third Georgian president said in a statement released from the Rustavi 12 penitentiary.

Again on The Hague. Tsulukiani did everything at Ivanishvili's behest to bring me to the tribunal, and they got exactly the opposite result! For the first time in the history of the tribunal, where both sides were always accused, it is now clearly written that the Georgian side is innocent. Today, the government brazenly writes the judgment itself.

While Tsulukiani fought against the Georgian military, I assembled a group of the world's leading lawyers to defend them. Last year their final 300-page report was published. The court practically repeated the theses of that opinion.

This decision is an unequivocal response. It is very unfortunate that the Russians presented Salome Zurabishvili's statement as evidence in court, but it was not taken into account, as were other Russian evidence," Mikheil Saakashvili wrote.