Zviad Gamsakhurdia
Georgian politician, philologist and university teacher (1939-1993)
Zviad Gamsakhurdia (31 March 1939 – 31 December 1993) was a Georgian politician and the first president of Georgia.
QuotesEdit
- The Georgian Republic aspires to its worthy place in the world's community of states; it affirms and equally guarantees, as envisioned by international law, all the fundamental rights and freedoms of the individual, of nations, ethnic, religious, and linguistic groups as demanded by the rules of the United Nations...
- As quoted in Georgia: A Political History Since Independence (2013), by Stephen Jones, I.B. Tauris, p. xxi
External linksEdit
Encyclopedic article on Zviad Gamsakhurdia at Wikipedia
