NEW PERMANENT REPRESENTATIVE OF GEORGIA PRESENTS CREDENTIALS
TO DIRECTOR-GENERAL OF UNOG

George Gorgiladze, the new Permanent Representative of Georgia to the United Nations Office at Geneva, today presented his credentials to Sergei Ordzhonikidze, the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva.

Prior to his appointment to Geneva, Mr. Gorgiladze had been serving as Assistant to the President of Georgia and Chief of Protocol of the President since 2004. From 1998 to 2004, he was Head of State Protocol at the State Chancellery. From 1992 to 1998, he served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, and concurrently as Director of the Diplomatic Protocol Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Mr. Gorgiladze served as Head of the Protocol Division at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia from 1986 to 1992, and was Assistant to the Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1985 to 1986. He jointed the Ministry in 1977, and before that, worked as a Guide-Interpreter and an English language teacher.

Mr. Gorgiladze has a degree from the Tbllisi State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1975). He was born in Tbllisi on 23 December, 1953, and is married with two children.


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