Salome Zourabichvili

Salome Zourabichvili         (politician)
Born	18 March 1952 Paris, France
Nationality	Georgian, French
Alma mater	Sciences Po, Columbia University
Spouse	• Nicolas Gorjestani • Janri Kashia
Spooky French diplomat who was parachuted in to become President of Georgia in 2018  Georgia/President  In office 16 December 2018 - Present  Professor In office 2006 - 2014 Employer Sciences Po Preceded by Seymour Lipset In between jobs ruling Georgia  Georgia/Foreign Minister In office 20 March 2004 - 18 October 2005 Appointed by Mikheil Saakashvili  France/Ambassador/Georgia  In office October 2003 - 20 March 2004

Salome Zourabichvili is a spooky French diplomat who became President of Georgia in 2018.

She wants to take her country into NATO and the European Union. She has criticised Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili for not giving enough support to Ukraine.

Background

Mikhail Kedia intended to become Führer of Georgia during world War 2

Zourabichvili was born in Paris, France into a family of Georgian political refugees. Salome's grandfather's name was Meki (Mehisedek) Kedia, until 1921 he was head of the secret police of Georgia (a short-lived British puppet state) and fought against the USSR.

Meka also had a son, Mikhail Kedia, who, after the outbreak of World War II, began to cooperate with Nazi Germany and personally with Reinhard Heydrich, where he was head of the Georgian section of the RSHA, and even received a German passport in Berlin on March 15, 1943. A 1948 CIA document lists him as a Gestapo official.

Mikhail participated in Operation Zeppelin, a top secret German plan to recruit Soviet prisoners of war (POWs) for espionage and sabotage operations in the Balkans and behind the Russian front line during World War II.

According to British documents, Kedia as "a character was much more obvious and more advanced, from the National-Socialist point of view" and "regarded himself as a potential leader of Georgia."

According to CIA declassified information in 2001, "In mid-1944, as the defeat of Germany became increasingly likely, Kedia tried to contact the Allies to offer his services. He claimed to have saved the lives of some Jews in France." Despite Kedia's offer to work for U.S. intelligence, the OSS and later the CIA rebuffed his offers. One CIA report described him as a man "with a long bad record" .Not all U.S. agencies viewed Kedia warily. Until December 1948 Kedia allegedly served as an informant for the Counterintelligence Corps, although the CIA file does not disclose how active he was."

Career

Salome Zourabichvili joined the French diplomatic service in the 1970s and went on to occupy a variety of increasingly senior diplomatic positions over three decades. From 2003 to 2004, she was the Ambassador of France to Georgia.

She became a Georgian citizen in 2003, in connection with the color revolution at that time, and was appointed Foreign Minister of Georgia.

Address to the Oxford Union on in January 2023

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Brussels Forum/2009	20 March 2009	22 March 2009	Belgium Brussels	Yearly discreet get-together of huge amount of transatlantic politicians, media and military and corporations, under the auspices of the CIA and NATO-close German Marshall Fund.
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
Munich Security Conference/2024	16 February 2024	18 February 2024	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists - in their own bubble, far from the concerns of their subjects

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