Zviad Gamsakhurdia
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Zviad Konstantines dze Gamsakhurdia (31 March 1939 – 31 December 1993) was a Georgian politician, human rights activist, dissident, professor of English language studies and American literature at Tbilisi State University, and writer who became the first democratically elected President of Georgia in May 1991.
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Quotes
[edit]- 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 links
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