Editing Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili

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[[File:Ekaterine.jpg|400px|thumbnail|left|A lecture by Eka Tkeshelashvili, Former Vice Prime-Minister of Georgia speaking at The Berlin International Economics Congress 2013]]


Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili was born on May 23, 1977, in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a jurist and a politician formerly serving as Minister of Justice, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the National Security Council, Deputy Prime Minister, and State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili.


== Biography ==

Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili trained as a lawyer in the International Committee of the Red Cross and later in IRIS Georgia, office of the University of Maryland's Center for Institutional Reform and the Informal Sector. From 1997 to 1999, she became chief Specialist Center for Foreign Policy Research and Analysis in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georigia. In 2001, she was a lawyer at Lawyer's Committee of Human Rights in New York. In December 2002, she interned at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in Hague, Netherlands till 2003. After, in 2004, Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili became the Deputy Minister of Justice of Georgia. In September 2005, she was appointed as the Deputy Minister of Interior.
In May 2006, she became chairperson of Tibilisi Court of Appeals and after she was Minister of Justice of Georgia. In 2008, she became Prosecutor General of Georgia, and subsequently, she was appointed as the Minister of Foreign Affairs till December 2008. Soon after, she was a member of the National Security Council. From 2010 to 2012, she became State Minister for Reintegration.



== Education ==

Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili graduated from the Faculty of International Law and International Relations at Tibilisi State University in 1999.


== Futher Information ==

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YxMVpij8xo ICD - The BERLIN International Economics Congress 2013 Berlin, 6th-10th March, 2013]

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTyj6i7z6I ICD - The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2012 "The Power of the Arts & Culture to Promote Democracy & Global Peace" The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (BERLIN, December 13th - 16th, 2012)]

== External links and References ==

[http://www.culturaldiplomacy.org/academy/index.php?The-Hon-Ekaterine-Tkeshelashvili The Hon. Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili biography. Institute for Cultural Diplomacy.] 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eka_Tkeshelashvili Wikipedia biographies.]
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 Ekaterine Tkeshelashvili was born on May 23, 1977, in Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a jurist and a politician formerly serving as Minister of Justice, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Secretary of the National Security Council, Deputy Prime Minister, and State Minister for Reintegration of Georgia under President Mikheil Saakashvili.
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-! colspan="2" class="n" style="text-align: center; font-size: 132%;" | Eka Tkeshelashvili
-|-
-! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | State Minister for Reintegration,
-Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia
-|-
-| colspan="2" style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center" | In office
-November 2010 – 25 October 2012
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | President
-| Mikheil Saakashvili
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | Preceded by
-| Temur Iakobashvili
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | Succeeded by
-| Paata Zakareishvili
-|-
-! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | Secretary of
-National Security Council
-|-
-| colspan="2" style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center" | In office
-December 2008 – 20 November 2010
-|-
-! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | Minister of Foreign Affairs
-|-
-| colspan="2" style="border-bottom:none; text-align:center" | In office
-May 2008 – 6 December 2008
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | Preceded by
-| David Bakradze
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | Succeeded by
-| Grigol Vashadze
-|-
-! colspan="2" style="background-color: lavender; text-align: center" | Personal details
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | Born
-|  23 May 1977
-Tbilisi, Georgia
-|-
-! style="text-align:left;" | Alma mater
-| Tbilisi State University
-|-
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 == Biography ==
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 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNTyj6i7z6I ICD - The ICD Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy 2012 "The Power of the Arts & Culture to Promote Democracy & Global Peace" The Institute for Cultural Diplomacy (BERLIN, December 13th - 16th, 2012)]
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-| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Preceded by Temur Iakobashvili
-| width="40%" style="text-align: center;" rowspan="1" | State Minister for Reintegration,
-Deputy Prime Minister of Georgia
-November 2010 – 25 October 2012
-| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Succeeded by
-Paata Zakareishvili
-|-
-| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Preceded by David Bakradze
-| width="40%" style="text-align: center;" rowspan="1" | Minister of Foreign Affairs
-May 2008 – 6 December 2008
-| width="30%" align="center" rowspan="1" | Succeeded by
-Grigol Vashadze
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 == External links and References ==