Accept failure. Let us Shake hands. It will be better for you to open the prison doors, before the whole world yourself, the Georgian people and the international court force you to do so

The third president responds with a special letter to the Strasbourg Court's decision, which found Mikheil Saakashvili's suit admissible:

"The Strasbourg Court of Human Rights did not disappoint me and allowed my case to be heard. This is an important decision and I really understand its value as a 1993 graduate of the Strasbourg International Institute of Human Rights.
Today, a huge step has been taken to establish the truth about the trumped-up dream cases and to restore justice.
I would like to remind everyone that in 2018 I won a lawsuit in a local court in the Netherlands against Ivanishvili's representative Rukhadze. We won Strasbourg in 2020 and The Hague Criminal Court in 2022, where a world-renowned team of lawyers defended me and the military at pre-trial stage and where Tsulukiani did her best to find me and the Georgian military guilty on trial. In short, I have been found innocent in all international courts so far and for some reason I always in Musuridze's court. The reason is quite clear - what is happening in Georgia is anything but justice. However, it is true that justice is slow, but inevitable.
I want to tell the now panicked Ministry of Justice and the whole government - accept failure. Let's shake hands, because we have the same Motherland, which is going through the hardest times.
You better open the prison doors, yourself, before the Georgian people and international judicial forums will make you do it. Do not disgrace our country. I personally promise that there will be no desire for revenge or even resentment, despite the hell you made me go through," Mikheil Saakashvili said in his letter.