Irakli Alasania

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Irakli Alasania (Georgian: ირაკლი ალასანია) (born December 21, 1973, Batumi, Ajaria, Georgia) is a Georgian politician and the former Chairman of the Government of Abkhazia-in-exile and an envoy of the President of Georgia at the Georgian-Abkhaz talks. His father General Mamia Alasania was killed during the Sukhumi Massacre on September 27, 1993.

[edit] Education

He graduated from the Faculty of International Law, Tbilisi State University, in 1995. In 1994-1996, he also took courses at the Georgian Academy of Security.

[edit] Career

He worked at the Ministry of State Security of Georgia from 1994 to 1998 and at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia through 1998-2001. He served as the chief of security service staff at the National Security Council of Georgia from October 2001 to February 2002, and held a post of the First Deputy Minister of State Security from February 2002 to February 2004. In March 2004, he was appointed a Deputy of Defence and remained on that post until July 2004, when he was moved to serve as an Assistant Secretary at the National Security Council of Georgia.

In October 2004, he became the chairman of Tbilisi-based Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia, transformed into the Government of Abkhazia (-in-exile) in December 2004. Simultaneously, he was appointed an envoy of the President of Georgia at the Georgian-Abkhaz peace talks, a decision initially opposed by the Abkhaz secessionist leadership but later accepted under the pressure from the U.N. mission (UNOMIG). In April 2006, he was moved to the post of the adviser to the President of Georgia in the conflicts issues.