Nino Burjanadze

Nino Burjanadze (Georgian ნინო ბურჯანაძე; * July 16, 1964 in Kutaisi ) is a Georgian politician ( Democratic Movement - Vereintes Georgia). She is professor of international law and was from November 2001 to May 2008 as the first woman in the history of Georgia's parliamentary speaker. From November 2003 to January 2004 and November 2007 to January 2008 she served as Georgia State President.

Life

Youth and studies

She was born as the daughter of Anzor Burjanadze, who was director of the State Combine bread to the Soviet period and after 1991 became a millionaire by securing a monopoly in the grain trade. After visiting the Akaki Tsereteli - school in Kutaisi she laid in 1981 from a high school.

She studied law at the Tbilisi State University. After finishing with commendation in 1986, she studied until 1989 at the Faculty of International Law at the Moscow State University. Her dissertation she wrote in 1990 about " Problematic aspects of international organizations and the international maritime law ." In 1991 she became Professor of International Law at the State University of Tbilisi.

1991-1992 Burjanadze worked as advisor to the Georgian Ministry of Environmental Protection. From 1992 to 1995 she was a consultant to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Georgian Parliament.

MPs and Parliament President

Since 1995 she has been elected three times as MP in the Parliament of Georgia, most recently in 2003 as a deputy in the constituency 59, Kutaisi. From 1995 to 1998 she was vice-chairman of the constitutional, legal and law committee. From 1998 to 1999 Chairman of the Committee. From 2000 to 2001 Burjanadze was chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee. On 9 November 2001, she chose the Georgian Parliament it as President of the 5th term. On 22 April 2004 she was re-elected with 159 votes to one for the 6th term.

From 1995 to 1998, Burjanadze chairman of the permanent parliamentary delegation to the United Kingdom, 1999-2000 deputy chairman of the Parliamentary Kooperationskommittees European Union Georgia. 1998 to 2000 she was the rapporteur of the Generalkommittees for Democracy, Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. 2001 to 2002 she was President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation. In 2000, she was Vice President of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly.

Acting State President

At the parliamentary elections in 2003 she went to together with the later Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania in the electoral alliance Burjanadze - Democrats. Following the resignation of President Eduard Shevardnadze in the Rose Revolution, which they led together with Mikheil Saakashvili and Zurab Zhvania, they held office from 23 November 2003 to 25 January 2004 as the Georgia State President. She is a leading member of the party National Movement - Democrats, which together include the support of the Velvet Revolution.

Burjanadze made ​​regularly strongly for the rights of Parliament against the government. In spring 2004, they turned against constitutional amendments zuwiesen more power to the president. In the fall of 2004, she demanded that the Parliament have the courage even to reject the budget if the president threatens with a parliamentary resolution.

Following the resignation of President Saakashvili on November 25, 2007, she was again sitting head of state of Georgia. With the inauguration of 5 January 2008 re-elected Saakashvili the office of head of state went back over to it.

Opposition politician

In November 2007, the first cracks showed in their relations with President Saakashvili. She refused advocated by him, violent dispersal of mass protests in Georgia, described this later as a " big mistake " and " tragedy ". In April 2008 a deep rift Burdschanadses revealed with the ruling party United National Movement ( ENM ). You no longer subsequently went as a candidate for the parliamentary elections in Georgia, 2008. According to the company was able to exert any influence on the composition of the ENM - candidate list: "I tried to bring those new faces on the list of candidates that really would be very useful for our country, in my opinion, who are committed to other important reforms, would introduce new, more humane strategies. I am sure that without urgent and important innovations, it is difficult in many ways, effectively develop the country. "

In July 2008, she became President of the newly formed Georgian think tank Foundation for Democracy and Development ( FDD), dedicated to the development of democratic institutions in Georgia and have a say in important political decisions of the country wants. In October of the same year Burjanadze presented the government with a comprehensive 43 points of questions on the causes of the Caucasus conflict in 2008 and founded a new opposition party, the Democratic Movement - Vereintes Georgia.

In July 2013, it announced its intention to stand as a candidate to the Georgian presidential elections. Contrary to their image as a reformer she sat in the presidential campaign on homophobic positions. She criticized the government has promoted gay tourists for holidays in Batumi on the Black Sea. This is an intolerable crime against their own country and their own people.

Burschanadse is married and has two sons. She speaks English and Russian. When her hobbies she calls gardening and skiing. Her husband Badri Bizadse was Deputy Attorney General and from February 2004 until his resignation in October 2008, Chief of the Georgian Border Guard.

Awards

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili was suitable to her in May 2008, by decree, a 31,696 -square-foot government land with house in Tbilisi suburb Zkneti. According to decree they received land and house for the symbolic price of a Georgian Lari as recognition of your contributions to "the development of parliamentarism and democracy in Georgia ." The building had served since 2001 as their official residence in the Office of the President of Parliament.