President of Georgia
Salome Zurabishvili

Place of birth

Paris

Education

1972 - Paris Institute of Political Science;

1973 - Columbia University;

1981 - Paris National School of Public Administration

Professional Experience

1974-1977 - Third secretary of the French Embassy in Rome;

1977-1980 - Second secretary of the Permanent Mission of France to the United Nations;

1980-1984 - Employee of the Analysis and Forecasting Center of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

1984-1988 - First Secretary of the French Embassy in Washington;

1988-1989 - First Secretary of the European Conference on Security and Co-operation in Vienna;

1989-1992 - Second Counselor at the French Embassy in the Republic of Chad;

1992-1993 - First Secretary of the Permanent Mission of France to the Euro-Atlantic Council (Brussels);

1993-1996 - Deputy Permanent Representative of France to the Western European Union (Brussels);

1996-1998 - Adviser to the Cabinet of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of France;

1997-1998 - Inspector General of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

1998-2001 - Officer of the Strategy, Security and Disarmament Division of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs;

2001-2003 - Head of International and Strategic Affairs of the General Secretariat of National Defense of France;

2003-2004 - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of France to Georgia;

2004-2005 - Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia;

2006 - Leader of political union The Way for Georgia;

2006-2015 - Professor at the French Institute of Political Science;

2010-2015 - Head of the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on Iran;

2016-2020 - Member of Parliament of Georgia of the 9th convocation;

2018 - Elected President of Georgia

Public Defender of Georgia
Nino Lomjaria
Minister of Justice of Georgia
Rati Bregadze
Speaker of Parliament of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili
Salome Zurabishvili: Terror in Georgia - media is not allowed to attend court proceedings, nobody present is allowed to film or record
Salome Zurabishvili: Georgian Dream is in a paranoid state, and this is a classic indicator of the end of such a regime - these are moments of fluctuations and we must endure, although enduring is not easy
Salome Zurabishvili arrives at Strategy Builder office
Marta Kos: At the Foreign Affairs Council, I expressed serious concern over the ongoing erosion of democratic foundations in Georgia – we continue to stand by the Georgian people and are strengthening our support
Salome Zurabishvili: Politically, such repressions are always a sign of weakness - This is the beginning of the end - The regime has reached a stage where nothing can save it – our response to repression will be our collective plan
Salome Zurabishvili arrived at the Lelo: Strong Georgia office
Salome Zurabishvili: The pro-Russian, pro-Iranian regime of Ivanishvili is intensifying repression – Prime Minister Kobakhidze is publicly threatening opponents: “All of you to prison"
Salome Zurabishvili: The world has changed radically! And our region is not an island! There is only one step towards peace now: the immediate release of political prisoners!
Salome Zurabishvili: For eight months now, Georgia has been fighting in the streets; no one has abandoned this struggle, because this is not a political crisis, but an existential one. It is a war against Russia's new hybrid strategy
Salome Zurabishvili at the National Congress of Romania’s Save Romania Union: When I was elected as Georgia’s first female president, I could never have imagined that a day would come when practically all freedoms would be endangered, violated, and gradually disappear from my country
Salome Zurabishvili: I conveyed the alarming truth to Nicusor Dan: elections were manipulated, freedoms are being suppressed and the regime is dragging the country towards Russia
Salome Zurabishvili meets with Romanian President
Salome Zurabishvili: Kuprashvili’s agency has turned into a punitive institution
Shalva Papuashvili: The group that is with Salome Zurabishvili is preparing to disrupt the local elections - everyone who cooperates with "this group," who "gives them money, shakes their hands, is an accomplice to the extremist agenda
Salome Zurabishvili meets British Minister of State for Europe
Salome Zurabishvili: Georgia faces a triple crisis: Democracy is weakening; Sovereignty is slipping into Russia’s hands; Geopolitically, we’re drifting from Europe toward Russia and China - and no one seems able to stop it
Salome Zurabishvili to address the French Senate today
Salome Zurabishvili: We are in an existential struggle, which explains why people in Georgia are not giving up
Oleksii Reznikov - Russia, in reality, is a paper tiger
A Korean tamada: Opening of the Korean Embassy in Tbilisi
Israeli Ambassador to Georgia - Our strategy is not to have Hamas controlling the Gaza Strip - Unfortunately, the UN cooperates with Hamas, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch work in favor of Hamas