Speaker of Parliament of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili

Education

1998 - graduated from Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University, Faculty of International Law and International Relations, majoring in International Law;

1998-2002 - studied under a scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the University of Saarland (Germany); in 1999 he was awarded a Master of Laws degree, and in 2002 - a Doctor of Laws degree

Professional Experience

On December 29, 2021, Shalva Papuashvili was elected Speaker of the Parliament of the tenth convocation of Georgia;

On October 31, 2020, Shalva Papuashvili was elected a member of the tenth convocation of the Parliament of Georgia from the party list of the Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

On December 15, 2020, he was elected First Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Education, Science and Culture;

On March 31, 2021 - he was elected Chairman of the Committee on Education and Science;

He is a member of the faction Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

Since January 16, 2021 he is a member of the political council of the party Georgian Dream - Democratic Georgia;

March 27, 2021 - party Public Relations Secretary;

2003-2007 - he was a law expert at the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ);

2007-2017 - he headed the various directions of the German International Cooperation (GIZ) Law Program in the South Caucasus;

2017-2020 - he was the head of the Georgian team of the law program;

Since 2012 - he has been giving lectures at various universities;

Shalva Papuashvili is an associate professor at Ilia State University

Publications

Collection of legal special cases on the general part of the Civil Code (co-author);

German-Georgian-German legal dictionary (co-author);

New grounds for admissibility of cassation in civil proceedings;

Development of law through judicial law;

Commitment of good faith management of the joint stock company's supervisory board

Languages

English, German and Russian

Public Defender of Georgia
Nino Lomjaria
President of Georgia
Salome Zurabishvili
European Georgia chairman
Giga Bokeria
Shalva Papuashvili: What we heard in the European Parliament was a repetition of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union! The European Union is becoming Soviet in content - we are the defenders of the European Union and the MEPs, European Commissioners are its enemies
Shalva Papuashvili: For us, what matters is not the "Moscow Mechanism" and Brussels' instrument, but the truth - the person was in Georgia for only 2 days and already prepared the document, do you doubt that this is a pre-written text and the rest was just packaging?
Shalva Papuashvili: Today we actually have not a radical opposition, but a radical Brussels, which is trying to change the government in Georgia from the outside
Shalva Papuashvili: In the "National Movement" they have a conflict over who will be the ram and who will be the sheep - all that's left for us is to grab some popcorn and watch the distribution of rams and sheep
Levan Ioseliani after meeting with the OSCE delegation: They were interested in information about human rights - a significant part of the discussion was devoted to cases of citizens harmed as a result of protests and the state's response
Estonian Ambassador: I will be leaving Tbilisi later this week - Does my departure reflect the current state of relations between Georgia and Estonia? Of course it does - I cannot hide that
Shalva Papuashvili on the German Ambassador: In Mr. Peter's case, it seems permissible first to manipulate with lies, and then to fail to notice the truth - the rules-based international order has been violated, but what has honesty done wrong?!
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly delegation meeting with opposition parties
Shalva Papuashvili - I would like to tell Peter Fischer not to make the Georgian people, especially the Georgian Dream and its voters an object of contempt - he destroyed the 30-year-old close partnership between Georgia and Germany in 3 years
OSCE Parliamentary Assembly President - We had a good and sincere meeting with the Speaker of the Parliament of Georgia
Shalva Papuashvili - No Georgian forgets his identity in any time and under any circumstances, under the influence of any empire or foreign power - our striving for freedom and independence is constant and this struggle will never stop
Shalva Papuashvili – Foreign donors have repeatedly rejected the government's recommendations on transparency and violated their obligations - we strongly urge them to engage constructively in this process
Shalva Papuashvili - When they talk to us, the President of Ukraine should lower his tone - we will not accept and will not tolerate even a single reprimand from Zelensky
Shalva Papuashvili - They have known us for 35 years, they came here, ate khinkali, khachapuri, looked at the Mother of Kartli, and read two verses of The Knight in the Tiger's Skin, but they still are not aware who they are dealing with, they still are not aware that they cannot tell the Georgian people - do you want a visa or freedom?!
Shalva Papuashvili – We found out why the British ambassador was studying Georgian - to watch POSTV and Imedi and to fabricate cases against free media
Shalva Papuashvili to Ruslan Stefanchuk: If the Ukrainian government weighed its every word and action toward the Georgian people, neither my assessment nor your response would be necessary
Ruslan Stefanchuk: I read with amazement Shalva Papuashvili's accusation of "ingratitude" - support for the UN resolution is not charity or heroism - it is the minimum level of elementary decency in 2026
Shalva Papuashvili: Just two days after the start of the war in Ukraine, the first call emerged to open a "second front" against Russia - social media still preserves the names and surnames of those 7000 Georgians who joined this demand and turned it into a tool of political pressure against the Georgian government
Estonian Ambassador: I will be leaving Tbilisi later this week - Does my departure reflect the current state of relations between Georgia and Estonia? Of course it does - I cannot hide that
UAE’s Minister of State for International Cooperation Reem Al Hashimy - “We will leave no stone unturned to make sure that we do defend ourselves”