Giga Bokeria

Giorgi (Giga) Bokeria (born 20 April, 1972) is a Georgian politician and the current deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia.

During 1989–1995 Bokeria was one of the leaders of student movement, in particular active member of Press Club of Tbilisi State University. Since 1992 he has been working as a journalist, in the newspaper "7 Dge" (7 Days), as a political editor of newspaper "Mimomkhilveli" (Observer) - 1992–1993, journalist of "Pikis Saati" (Rush Hour) program of "Channel 1" of State Radio -1993, journalist of Radio Liberty - 1994, political editor of newspaper "Argumenti" (Argument) - 1995–1996, "Akcentebi" (Accents) talk show host of Rustavi 2 broadcasting company - 1996.Fact|date=February 2007

In 1996, together with Levan Ramishvili, Givi Targamadze and David Zurabishvili, Bokeria co-founded Liberty Institute, Georgian non-profit, non-partisan, liberal public policy advocacy foundation, taking a job of coordinating human rights programs and later – senior legal advisor.

In 2003, after a visit to Serbia to study peaceful revolution techniques, Bokeria helped bring Serb activists from youth movement Otpor to Georgia to train students in the same techniques. As a result, a youth movement "Kmara" was established, which played a leading role in the November 2003 Rose Revolution. After the Revolution, Bokeria was elected to Parliament where he has authored a number laws to strengthen human rights in Georgia.Fact|date=February 2007

He is a Member of Parliament since 2004. He is the Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Legal Issues and is a Member of Committee on Defense and Security. Since 2005 he is Vice-President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) and vice-chairman of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe group in the assembly. In April 2008, he was moved to the post of deputy Foreign Minister of Georgia. [ [http://www.civil.ge/eng/article.php?id=17534 MP Bokeria Becomes Deputy Foreign Minister] . Civil Georgia. 2008-04-07.]

He is one of the leaders of United National Movement.Fact|date=February 2007

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* [http://www.parliament.ge/index.php?lang_id=ENG&sec_id=123&cevri_id=343 Biographical entry on the website of Georgia's parliament]
* [http://assembly.coe.int/ASP/AssemblyList/ALMemberDetails.asp?MemberID=5396 Biographical entry on the website of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe]
* [http://www.leftgatekeepers.com/articles/ProWestLeadersInGeorgiaPushShevardnadzeOutByHughPopeWSJ.htm Hugh Pope, The Wall Street Journal: Pro-West leaders in Georgia push Shevardnadze out (en)]
* [http://www.liberty.ge/eng/files/Georgian%20Media%20in%20the%2090s.pdf Giga Bokeria, Givi Targamadze, Levan Ramishvili: Georgian Media in the 90s: A step to liberty, 1997 (en) (PDF-Datei)]