Lasha Zhvania

Infobox Politician
name = Lasha Zhvania

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imagesize = 250px
order = Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee of the Parliament of Georgia
president =Mikheil Saakashvili
term_start = 14 June 2008
predecessor = Konstantin Gabashvili
order2 = Ambassador of Georgia in Israel
term_start2 = 18 March 2005
term_end2 = 7 June 2008
president2 = Mikheil Saakashvili
primeminister2 = Lado Gurgenidze
order3 = Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs
term_start3 = 2004
term_end3 = 2005
president3 = Mikheil Saakashvili
minister1 = Salome Zourabichvili
birth_date = 14 October 1973
birth_place = Tbilisi, Georgia
religion = Orthodox Christian
almamater = Tbilisi State University

Lasha Zhvania (Georgian: ლაშა ჟვანია) (born October 14, 1973 in Tbilisi, Georgia) is a Georgian politician and member of Parliament. A lawyer by education specializing in international law, he has served in the posts of Consul in Israel, Deputy-Minister of Finance, Deputy-Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary to the State of Israel and the Republic of Cyprus. He currently serves as the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee of the Parliament of Georgia. He is married to Tea Kiknavelidze and have three children - Anna, Sulkhan-Irineos and Helen. [ [http://www.parliament.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=291&cevri_id=1913 Parliament web site] ] [ [http://www.investingeorgia.org/news/view/1344 Invest in Georgia news] ]

In addition to his native Georgian, he speaks English, Hebrew (Ivrit), Russian and Greek. Zhvania was elected to the Parliament on May 21, 2008. His appointment as Chairman for Foreign Relations Committee on 14 June, 2008 coincided with Georgia’s increasingly tense relations with its northern neighbor Russia over the breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, and Georgia’s aspiration to join NATO.Fact|date=August 2008

Early life

Lasha Zhvania was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgian SSR. He was educated at Tbilisi school No 1 (1979-1990), Faculty of International Law and International Relations of the Tbilisi State University (1990-1995), PHD study on International Humanitarian and Refugee Law at the Department for International Law of the Tbilisi State University (1995-1998). Apart from numerous high-profile government positions Zhvania has been actively involved in various educational Programmes attending the CPDS - Courses for Political and Diplomatic Studies in UK's Leeds University, in 1995, and Refugee and IDP International Law Programme at Birmingham University in UK, in 1998.

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