Irakli Alasania

Quick Facts

Full Name	Irakli Alasania
Occupation	Diplomat
Date Of Birth	Dec 21, 1973(1973-12-21)
Age	51
Birthplace	Batumi
Country	Soviet Union
Birth City	Batumi
Horoscope	Aquarius

Irakli Alasania Biography

Irakli Alasania is one of the most popular and richest Diplomat who was born on December 21, 1973 in Batumi, Batumi, Soviet Union. Irakli Alasania (Georgian: ირაკლი ალასანია ) (born 21 December 1973) is a Georgian politician, soldier and former diplomat who served as the Minister of Defense of Georgia from 2012 to 2014. He was Georgia’s Ambassador to the United Nations from September 11, 2006, until December 4, 2008. His previous assignments include Chairman of the Government of Abkhazia(-in-exile) and the President of Georgia’s aide in the Georgian-Abkhaz talks. Soon after his resignation, Alasania withdrew into opposition to the Mikheil Saakashvili administration, setting up the Our Georgia – Free Democrats party in July

2009. In 2012 Alasania was appointed Minister of Defense, a position he held until 2014.

Alasania resigned his position as Georgia’s Permanent Representative at the U.N. on December 4, 2008, citing concerns over the Georgian government’s handling of the 2008 war with Russia.

Alasania retained his position of the President’s special envoy for the Abkhazia issue and in this capacity, paid a surprise and largely unpublicized visit to Sukhumi on May 12, 2008, where he presented a Georgia-Abkhaz peace plan. The move came amid the stalemate in the Georgian-Abkhaz talks and increasing Russian-Georgian tensions over Abkhazia.

On 16 July 2009, the political party Our Georgia – Free Democrats was founded and Alasania was chosen as its chairman. In September 2009, the Alasania announced that he would run for Tbilisi mayor’s post in local elections in May 2010.

On 26 December 2008, several days after his return to Georgia, Alasania announced that he was in talks with Georgian opposition and would actively enter Georgian politics. Alasania criticized the government’s handling of recent events, blaming it for “falling into a Russian trap” (a reference to the August 2008 war with Russia). Alasania also called for the creation of strong and transparent democratic institutions. In a subsequent interview on January 25, Alasania called for Saakashvili’s resignation and early presidential elections.

Irakli Alasania Net Worth

Irakli Alasania is one of the richest Diplomat from Soviet Union. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Irakli Alasania 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Irakli Alasania was born in Batumi, Adjara. He participated in the Abkhazian war despite not being an adult, but in the last days of war with the pressure of his father General Mamia Alasania he was forced to live in Abkhazia, his father was killed together with other Georgian politicians upon the fall of Sokhumi to the Abkhaz separatist forces on September 27, 1993. Irakli Alasania graduated from the Tbilisi State University with a degree in international law in 1995. Simultaneously he also took courses at the Georgian Academy of Security from 1994 to 1996. He worked for the Ministry of State Security of Georgia from 1994 to 1998. In 1999 the Pankisi Gorge crisis began, he was one of the key figures of resolving this conflict. He was against of cooperating with Russian forces against Chechen Boeviks. In October 2001 he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. He then served as deputy Minister of State Security from February 2002 to February 2004, and deputy Minister of Defense from March 2004 until July 2004, when he was moved to serve as the Deputy Secretary of the National Security Council of Georgia.

On September 28, 2004, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili appointed Alasania as chairman of the Tbilisi-based Abkhazian government-in-exile. On February 15, 2005, Saakashvili also made him his aide in the Georgian-Abkhaz peace talks, a move that was initially opposed by the Abkhaz secessionist leadership, but later accepted under pressure from the U.N. mission (UNOMIG). During this tenure, Alasania succeeding in establishing good ties with several Abkhaz politicians and was instrumental in resuming the Georgian-Abkhaz Coordination Council, a tool for direct talks between the two sides, in March

2006. That month, however, he was appointed as Georgia’s Permanent Representative to the U.N., a decision which triggered some controversy, with critics saying that sidelining Alasania from the Georgian-Abkhaz negotiations would hinder the positive momentum recently observed in the process.

Due to his appointment as Georgia’s Representative to the UN during the 2008 conflict between Georgia and Russia over South Ossetia, Alasania was the Georgian government’s key negotiator with the UN Security Council and voiced the need for quick and decisive UN and international pressure on Russia to end the conflict.

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Top Facts about Irakli Alasania

1. Irakli Alasania is a Georgian politician and diplomat.
2. He served as Georgia’s Ambassador to the United Nations.
3. Alasania was also the Minister of Defense for Georgia.
4. He founded the Free Democrats political party in 2009.
5. In 2010, he was named “Politician of the Year” by Georgian Journal.
6. Alasania ran for president in 2013 but withdrew before the election.
7. He has been a vocal advocate for Georgia’s integration into NATO and the EU.
8. Alasania is fluent in English, Russian, and French.
9. He was born on December 21, 1973, in Batumi, Georgia.
10. Alasania graduated from Tbilisi State University with a degree in international law.