SUKHUM, February 26 (Itar-Tass) --
Abkhazian President Sergei Bagapsh on Friday appointed Maxim Gvindzhia
the country’s foreign minister.
Gvindzhia, 34, graduated from the
Gorlovka State Institute of Foreign Languages, Ukraine in 1998. He
joined the Abkhazian diplomatic corps in 1999. He was deputy foreign
minister from March 2004 and Abkhazia’s envoy to the Unrepresented
Nations and Peoples Organization (UNPO) from 2005.
Gvindzhia is the youngest minister in
the Abkhazian government. Under the Abkhazian laws, the country’s
cabinet resigned on February 13 when the newly elected president,
Sergei Bagapsh, took office. On the same day, the president appointed
Sergei Shamba, Abkhazia’s former foreign minister, prime minister of
the republic. As of now, practically all ministers and other government
officials have already been appointed.
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