Lelo MP
Salome Samadashvili

Education

1997 - Allegheny College, Political sciences and phylosophy

2002 - Central European University, Constitutional Law

2001 - University of America, Public administration

Professional Experience

2016 - present - University of Georgia, International Relations and Political Sciences Department, Director

2015 - present - University of Georgia, guest lecturer

2014 - 2015 - US NDI Libya Parliamentary Program, Director

2013 - 2014 - Martens Center for European Studies, honorary researcher

2005 - 2013 - Georgian Mission to EU, Head, Ambassador of Georgia to Belgium and Luxemburg

2002 - 2004 - NDI, Head of the Parliamentary Program

2001 - 2001 - International Center for Education and Arts, program specialist

2000 - 2001 - Washington University, USA, Assistant to the Professor

1998 - 1998 - Embassy of Georgia to USA, Chief of Chancellery

1997 - 1998 - Monterey Institute of International Studies, Herbert Scoville Fellow

Honorary Degree

The Presidential Order of Excellence (01 Nov 2011)

Public Defender of Georgia
Nino Lomjaria
Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
Former President of Georgia
Giorgi Margvelashvili
Salome Samadashvili: The legal persecution of opposition figures, combined with party bans, is an attempt at the total destruction of the opposition — a Russian-style political system is being created
The Economist publishes an article titled: “Georgia is dousing the last embers of democracy”
Salome Samadashvili: "Georgian Dream's" next step will be recognizing the occupied territories' independent status, which is not a thought cooked up in Kobakhidze's and Ivanishvili's heads; they have orders, because Russia is preparing for border demarcation
Salome Samadashvili: An important opportunity has been created and a number of representatives of the Georgian Dream will have their visa-free entry to the European Union revoked, I assume that it will be used in the case of Georgia
Salome Samadashvili: The recall of the German ambassador before the European Council meeting makes it clear what decisions we can expect from Brussels
Salome Samadashvili: The “creators” of October 4 should at least stop their campaign to demoralize society, it’s time - Georgia will win this war and everyone who is now pressing society with a narrative of doomed heroism will look ridiculous
Salome Samadashvili: If we don’t quickly shift to thinking about the future - not the distant future, but what we do tomorrow and the day after - the majority, stripped of the “European morsel” from their mouths, will be forced to submit to Russia and its allied minority in Georgia
Salome Samadashvili: No one intends to start relations from a clean slate until Bidzina Ivanishvili’s regime changes its anti-democratic policies
Salome Samadashvili: The only point from which a real reset of our relations with the EU and the return of Georgia to the European agenda can begin will be new democratic parliamentary elections
Salome Samadashvili: The Russian regime exploits every opportunity to deceive voters, pretending it wants to reset relations with the West, while in reality, it takes every step to ensure Georgia loses its achievements
Salome Samadashvili: Kobakhidze will use the visit to Copenhagen for a PR campaign to convince his remaining supporters that someone is talking to him somewhere - but the reality is that the process of joining the European Union has been suspended
Salome Samadashvili: We are dealing with a simple, pre-election PR in the form of Tsulukiani's commission - they are trying to mobilize their remaining few voters
Salome Samadashvili: Thanks to the Russian regime, Georgia is the only candidate country told that its de facto Foreign Minister has no place alongside European foreign ministers
Irakli Pavlenishvili: Salome Samadashvili and politicians like her are actually Bidzina Ivanishvili's lifeline
Salome Samadashvili: Bidzina Ivanishvili has turned Georgia into a laundromat for dirty Russian money - it’s unimaginable that a crime of this scale could have been committed without political protection at the highest level
Salome Samadashvili: The arrest of Elene Khoshtaria is yet another clear expression that we are being ruled by a repressive Russian regime
Salome Samadashvili: Russia’s task for Ivanishvili’s government is to dismantle all our Western strategic ties as quickly as possible - in this regard, alongside the US, it is particularly important to rapidly ruin relations with Germany, as its weight in the EU is unmatched
Salome Samadashvili: The regime must end immediately, internal disputes should be less interesting, nothing will change until the government does not change
Ambassador of Korea Hyon Du KIM - Korea’s strength lies in high-tech manufacturing while Georgia’s strength is in logistics and service areas - Georgia should not be just considered as a single market but as a market that can encompass the region and beyond
Oleksii Reznikov - Russia, in reality, is a paper tiger