1. Giorgi Baramidze is a Georgian politician who served as Vice Prime Minister of Georgia and State Minister for Euro-Atlantic Integration from 2004 to 2012.
11 Facts About Giorgi Baramidze
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Giorgi Baramidze graduated from the Department of Chemical Technologies of the Georgian Technical University in 1992.
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Giorgi Baramidze later participated in combat operations in Labra village of Ochamchire district and around Sukhumi.
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In 1992, Giorgi Baramidze was elected to the Parliament of Georgia from bloc "Green Party of Georgia" and served as the Secretary for the Commission of Human Rights and National Minorities and as a member of the Parliamentary Defense and Security Commission.
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Giorgi Baramidze was elected a member of the State Coordination Commission of Georgia's participation in NATO Partnership for Peace Program.
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In 1996, Giorgi Baramidze was elected chairman of the parliamentary faction of the Union of Citizens of Georgia.
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From 1998 through 1999, Giorgi Baramidze worked as an Associate Researcher at Institute for the Study of Diplomacy of Georgetown University in Washington, DC, conducting research on US government policy, structures and functions as well as on political, military and defense issues in Caucasus.
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In 2003 parliamentary elections, Giorgi Baramidze was re-elected from the same district of Tbilisi from bloc Burjanadze-Democrats.
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Giorgi Baramidze was seen as a member of the government faction grouped around the then Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania that were seen to be in opposition to the President Mikheil Saakashvili.
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The election saw the defeat of the UNM by the Georgian Dream coalition and Giorgi Baramidze lost the Batumi race, but he obtained a seat in the new parliament through a party list.
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Giorgi Baramidze has one daughter, Anna Giorgi Baramidze, from his first marriage.