Avtandil Jorbenadze

Avtandil Jorbenadze
ავთანდილ ჯორბენაძე
State Minister of Georgia
In office
21 December 2001 – 27 November 2003
President Eduard Shevardnadze, Nino Burjanadze (acting)
Preceded by Giorgi Arsenishvili
Succeeded by Zurab Zhvania
Personal details
Born (1951-02-23) 23 February 1951
Chibati, Lanchkhuti District, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union

Avtandil Jorbenadze is a former Prime Minister (then the Minister of State) of Georgia.

Before entering politics, Jorbenadze worked as a doctor and a KBG officer; in this capacity, in 1992 he was called to take up the post of deputy minister of health. He left the cabinet briefly the following year, but soon rejoined it as health minister.[1] In 1999, he was given the responsibility for social security, and the next year that for labour.[2] When President Shevardnadze dismissed his cabinet, in the aftermath of a controversial storming of a television station by security agents,[3] Jorbenadze was appointed head of the cabinet in December 2001.[2]

References

Notes

  1. ↑ "Military reverse for Gamsakhurdia rebels". Keesing's Record of World Events 39: 39695. October 1993.
  2. 1 2 "Georgian Parliament endorses Jorbenadze's appointment as minister of state". Iprinda news agency. 22 December 2001.
  3. ↑ Wines, Michael (2 November 2001). "TV Station Raid in Georgia Leads to Protests and Cabinet's Ouster". New York Times.


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