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Saakashvili has a taste for ties

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Published 17 September, 2008, 13:09

The nervous Georgian President revealed an odd little habit – he apparently likes munching his neck tie while speaking on the phone. A BBC camera caught Mikhail Saakashvili doing a spot of tie chewing.

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