1. David Zalkaliani is a Georgian politician and career diplomat who served as the Ambassador of Georgia to the United States from April 4,2022 until November 30,2024.
15 Facts About David Zalkaliani
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Back in those years, cooperation between Georgia and the European Community was mainly focused on humanitarian and technical issues, in which David Zalkaliani was actively involved.
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From 1996 to 2000, David Zalkaliani served as a Counsellor at the Embassy of Georgia to the Republic of Austria and the Permanent Mission of Georgia to the OSCE and International Organization's in Vienna.
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David Zalkaliani took part in the negotiating process on the text of the Agreement on Adaptation of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe.
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David Zalkaliani participated in various important high-level summits, including the Budapest Summit of 1994, the Lisbon Summit of 1996 and the Istanbul Summit of 1999.
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David Zalkaliani actively participated in the process of negotiations for the withdrawal of Russian military bases from the territory of Georgia.
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Later, David Zalkaliani joined Mikeladze, when Mikeladze became actively involved in social and political activities.
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In 2004 David Zalkaliani continued his diplomatic career in Uzbekistan having served as an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan.
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In 2007 David Zalkaliani was appointed as the Director of the Department of Global Relations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
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In 2009 David Zalkaliani left his position as an Ambassador and entered politics along a group of like-minded people.
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From 2012 to 2014 David Zalkaliani was a Chief Negotiator from the Georgian side in the Geneva International Discussions and the Co-Chair of working groups of US-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership.
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In 2015 David Zalkaliani continued his diplomatic career as an executive director in the newly founded Levan Mikeladze Foundation.
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In 2016 David Zalkaliani assumed the position of the First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and on the 21st of June of 2018 was promoted to the position of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Georgia.
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On January 21,2021, Foreign Minister David Zalkaliani was appointed as Vice Prime Minister of Georgia.
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In 2007 David Zalkaliani was granted the diplomatic rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.