Global InformationAleksandre Chikvaidze information
Aleksandre Chikvaidze | |
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 Chikvaidze at the Security Council, in 1995. | |
| 3rd Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia | |
| In office 15 February 1992 – 31 December 1995 | |
| President | Eduard Shevardnadze |
| Deputy | Tedo Japaridze Giga Burduli Mikheil Ukleba |
| Preceded by | Murman Omanidze |
| Succeeded by | Irakli Menagarishvili |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 19 January 1932 Tbilisi, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia) |
| Died | 2012 Tbilisi, Georgia |
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Aleksandre Chikvaidze (Georgian: ალექსანდრე ჩიკვაიძე; 19 January 1932 – 2012) was a Soviet and Georgian statesman and diplomat. Chikvaidze was appointed Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of independent Georgia by Acting Prime Minister Tengiz Sigua in February 1992[1] and went on to serve in Eduard Shevardnadze's government, after the latter's return to Georgia in March 1992, until December 1995.
During his tenure as foreign minister, Chikvaidze ushered Georgia into the United Nations as its 179th member, on 31 July 1992,[2] and managed a wave of diplomatic recognition of Georgia, the establishment of bilateral diplomatic relations between Georgia and the countries of the world, and of the integration of Georgia into most international organizations. Chikvaidze undertook strenuous efforts to place the problems of Georgia's internal conflicts in Abkhazia and South Ossetia, that were raging at the time, on the international agenda, of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, the Council of Europe and to have the United Nations Security Council ‘seized of the matter,’ while working closely with the Russian government to keep it engaged in helping Georgia find a solution to these conflicts.[3] Chikvaidze opened Georgia's relationship with NATO by signing the Partnership for Peace Framework Document in March 1994.[4] After leaving the foreign minister post, Chikvaidze served as Georgian ambassador to Greece,[5] to the Holy See,[6] to Switzerland and as Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, from 1996 to 2005.[7] He retired from active diplomatic service in June 2005, almost two years into the presidency of Mikheil Saakashvili.[8]
- ^ NRK Handelsblatt, Dinsdag, februari 25, 1992
- ^ Security Council Resolution 763 (1992); UN GA Resolution A/46/241 of 31 July 1992; ახალგაზრდა ივერიელი, 8 აგვისტო 1992 წ. (Young Iverieli newspaper, Tbilisi, 8 August 1992)
- ^ FBIS-SOV-93-163, 3 August 1993; Report of the Secretary-General in Pursuance of Security Council Resolution 849 (1993), S/26250, 6 August 1993; FBIS-SOV-93-163, 25 August 1993; FBIS-SOV-93-184, 24 September 1993; Department of State Dispatch, May 9, 1994
- ^ "Deepening Relations with Georgia, NATO, 2011" (PDF).
- ^ Greek Diplomatic Life, April 1996
- ^ L’Osservatore Romano, venerdi, 16 maggio 2003
- ^ Who’s Who in Georgia 2006, p. 520
- ^ Diva, January 2005