Irakli Alasania
Irakli Alasania (Georgian ირაკლი ალასანია; born December 21, 1973 in Batumi, Georgian SSR) is a Georgian politician and diplomat. From September 2006 to December 2008, he was Ambassador of Georgia to the United Nations in New York. In 2009 he was chairman of the party Our Georgia - Free Democrats, the 2012 the Alliance Georgian Dream joined. The future Georgian Prime Minister Bidsina Ivanishvili nominated him in 2012 as Vice - Premier and Minister of Defense.
Life
Youth
He was born the son of General Mamia Alasania, who was murdered in the massacre of Sukhumi in 1993. In 1995 he graduated with a degree in International Law at the State University of Tbilisi.
Ministry officials
1994 to 1998 he worked in the Georgian Ministry of State Security, visited from 1994 to 1996 the Georgian Security Academy. In 1998, he joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. There he first worked in the Department of CIS and Russian affairs. Later he went to the Georgian Embassy in the United States. From October 2001 to January 2002, he headed the Department for Security Affairs National Security Council.
Vice - Minister
On 21 January 2002, he was First Deputy Minister of State Security, in March 2004, first deputy defense minister. On 16 July 2004 he took the post of Deputy Secretary in the National Security Council.
Special Representative
On September 28, 2004, President Mikheil Saakashvili appointed him as Chairman of the Abkhaz government in exile based in Tbilisi. On February 15, 2005, Special Representative and consultant Saakashvili in the Georgian- Abkhaz peace talks. The Abkhaz government rejected the nomination first, then added, however, under pressure from the UNOMIG. Alasania succeeded at this time to establish good connections with various Abkhaz politicians. Therefore, he played a key role in March 2006 in an attempt by the Georgian government, the Georgian - Abkhaz Coordination revive.
Ambassador to the UN
On 11 September 2006 he took up his post as ambassador to the UN in New York. His job as special envoy for Abkhaz affairs he maintained. On 12 May 2008 he met a publicly screened conversation with the Abkhaz government together in Sukhumi.
According to Georgian President Saakashvili government newspapers carried him in October 2008, he received the Office of the Prime Minister to which he, however, declined due to lack of control of the interior and defense ministries.
Opposition politicians
On 4 December 2008, he resigned as ambassador to the UN. In a newspaper interview he had a month earlier, the political processes that led to the Caucasus conflict in 2008, criticized. He returned to Georgia and founded on February 23, 2009 with the Georgian opposition parties Republican Party and New Conservative Party, the opposition alliance Nowas New Alliance. The Alliance chose him as chairman and set it up as presidential candidates.
On 16 July 2009, he founded the party Our Georgia - Free Democrats. 2012, the party joined the coalition Georgian Dream. In the 2012 election Alasania candidate in Zugdidi in vain for the Georgian Parliament. Georgia's future Prime Minister Bidsina Ivanishvili nominated him October 8, 2012 as Vice - Premier and Minister of Defense.
Alasania is married and has two children.