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

Special Representative of the Prime Minister for Relations with Russia
Zurab Abashidze
Former President of Georgia
Mikheil Saakashvili
Public Defender of Georgia
Nino Lomjaria
Shalva Papuashvili: I would like Congress to investigate what role USAID played in disseminating fake results of the parallel count, whether the then- US ambassador knew that the results were false
Irakli Kobakhidze: The opposition has decided to become pro-Russian ahead of elections - they won't even get the 30% results they had so far according to the ratings
Shalva Papuashvili: There are all kinds of evidence of how they were pushing us to the war, but you don’t want to see them
Shalva Papuashvili: If not the State Security Service, who knows what would have happened on the eve of the 2021 elections, how the situation would have escalated, whose bullet would have been fired and whose tank would have been brought in this country
Shalva Papuashvili: Precisely because Georgian Dream did not put anyone's interest above the interests of the Georgian people, today we are the only island of peace in the region engulfed in flames
Shalva Papuashvili: Sheltering a criminal is not a European value - let's not forget that Davit Kezerashvili, who is known to be guilty of stealing money of the Georgian army by all courts, is hiding in the EU
Shalva Papuashvili: I look at the uproar in the European Parliament, the pre-election rhetoric in the USA and France, and I remember the tone of criticism of Georgian "polarization" by foreign actors, which makes us feel like an inferior, unfit society
Shalva Papuashvili: Unfortunately, it has been brought to this point that such decisions of the European Union, when it comes to the Georgian army, are increasingly perceived by the Georgian people as ungrateful - when the Georgian soldiers were fighting with them on the front line
Olympic team of Georgia takes oath
Shalva Papuashvili: Georgian people are loyal to European values, although some European politicians are lost to the European bureaucracy - the entire Georgian criminal clan of politicians was hiding or is hiding in the European space
The Speaker of the Parliament requests the President to convene an extraordinary session from July 18
Shalva Papuashvili: The assassination attempt of Donald Trump and the reaction of our opposition and their supporters to it finally proved that the October 26 elections will be a watershed between war and peace
Shalva Papuashvili on attack on Trump: Violence should have absolutely no place in politics and I hope this terrible event will be an awakening point for all decent people to rally against extremism and radicalism
Shalva Papuashvili: Georgia has been waiting to join the North Atlantic Alliance for many years, it has been standing in this open door for 16 years
Extraordinary session of Parliament to be held on July 18-19
Shalva Papuashvili: No one will put the interests of our country above the interests of their own country and we shouldn't put the interest of others above the interest of our country
Shalva Papuashvili: There is no direct budget funding from France, therefore, it is a bit unclear what the Ambassador’s statement was about
Shalva Papuashvili: It's a lie as if Georgia is without allies
Robin Wagener - With the law on "transparency of foreign influence", there will be no EU membership - No chance for that
Estonian Ambassador to Georgia - If we want EU membership, we should all play by the rules - The Georgian Government on the one hand says that they are moving closer to the EU, but their actions do not prove that