Mikheil Saakashvili – I am asking that I be taken to the funeral of the Patriarch, as his friend, the third president of Georgia

The third president of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili, who is in prison, is asking that he be taken to the funeral of the Catholicos-Patriarch of Georgia, Ilia II.

“I asked my lawyer to file an application and ask that I be taken to the funeral of the Patriarch, as his friend, the third president of Georgia,” Saakashvili wrote on social media.

For information, the Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia, His Holiness and Beatitude Ilia II, died at the age of 93. A day of mourning has been declared in Georgia in connection with the death of Ilia II. The Catholicos-Patriarch will be buried on Sunday, March 22, in the Sioni Cathedral.

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