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Abashidze Zurab

Zurab Abashidze (b. June 11, 1951, Tbilisi) is a diplomat, doctor of Political Science (2001), professor of Tbilisi State University (since 2014). In 1973 he graduated from the Maurice Thorez Institute of Foreign Languages (now Moscow State Linguistic University).

In 1978–1980 he served as the attaché of the Consulate General of the USSR in Mumbai (India); In 1984–1988 — counselor of the USSR Embassy in Spain; In 1988–1992 — Chairman of the Georgian Society for Cultural Relations with Foreign Countries.

While working in India, he located the grave of Queen Ketevan the Martyr in St.

Augustine’s Church of Goa.

After the restoration of the state independence of Georgia, Abashidze became the head of the country's first diplomatic missions to the European Union and NATO in 1993–2000; At the same time, in 1993–2000 – he was the Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Benelux countries; In 2000 — he was the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of