Ex-pres Margvelashvili confirms meeting with Zurabishvili, says he’ll meet Saakashvili

The fourth president of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili has confirmed he met with current president Salome Zurabishvili over her recently voiced initiative for the ‘national reconciliation.’ 

Margvelashvili has refrained from voicing details, but said that he welcomes Zurabishvili’s initiative which refers to making peace between current and former state leaderships of Georgia. 

He said that he has plans to meet with imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili and will request the meeting in Gori military hospital where Saakashvili was transferred last month after his 50-day hunger strike. 

Saakashvili, who was arrested in Tbilisi on October 1, says that ‘national reconciliation is in everyone’s interests.’  However, the ruling Georgian Dream party members say that ‘no reconciliation takes place’ until Saakashvili and his United National Movement party ‘admit to serious crimes they committed while in office and then leave politics.’