Greece and Georgia established Embassy-level diplomatic relations in 1992. The Greek Embassy in Tbilisi has been in operation since July 1995. Georgia has an Embassy and a General Consulate in Athens and a General Consulate in Thessaloniki.
Political Relations
Greek presence in Georgia dates back to ancient times. Apart from the traditional ties between the two peoples, bilateral political relations between the two countries are based, on the one hand, on Greece’s interest in maintaining strong ties with the strategic area of the South Caucasus and the Black Sea, and, on the other hand, Georgia’s interest in developing relations with the member-states of the European Union and NATO.
Cultural Relations and Greek Community
There is great interest in Georgia in the Greek language, literature and culture. The Institute of Classical, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Tbilisi has 80 students and there are Chairs of Hellenic Studies at Akhaltsikhe and Batumi universities. 1680 pupils att schools around Georgia are being taught Greek as a foreign language.
The Greek community of Georgia is currently estimated at 15,000 people, mostly elderly people living in the Tsalkas area. Their numbers have shrunk as a result of the large wave of repatriation to Greece following the collapse of the Soviet Union and have been fluctuating to this day. Most of the people of Greek origin who left Georgia have settled in Greece and fewer have moved to Russia to settle as former Soviet Union citizens.
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Ioseb Nanobashvili| Ambassador of Azerbaijan in Greece
Date of Birth: 30-Apr-1971
Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgia
Marital Status: Married to Mrs. Marine Chkareuli
Education
Oct 2003 – Apr 2005: LACROSSE UNIVERSITY (online study), USA, Covington, Louisiana
Main subject of study:Political science
Type of Degree:Ph.D
Sep 2000 – Jun 2002: MEDITERRANEAN ACADEMY OF DIPLOMATIC STUDIES, Malta
Main subject of study: Diplomacy, Political science
Type of Degree:Master of Diplomacy
Sep 1987 – Jul 1993: TBILISI STATE UNIVERSITY Tbilisi, Georgia
Main subject of study: Theoretical Physics
Type of Degree: Bachelor
Employment Record
May 2015: AMBASSADOR EXTRAORDINARY AND PLENIPOTENTIARY OF GEORGIA TO THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC
December 2013 – April 2015: Director, DEPARTMENT OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC RELATIONS, MFA OF GEORGIA
July 2009 – July 2013:Senior Counselor, MISSION OF GEORGIA TO THE OSCE, Vienna, Austria
Feb 2008 – Jul 2009:Charge de affaire, Senior Counselor/Consul, EMBASSY OF GEORGIA IN ROMANIA, Bucharest, Romania
Apr 2006 – Feb 2008:Deputy Director, EURO-INTEGRATION DEPARTMENT, MFA OF GEORGIA
Sep 2002 – Mar 2006:Counselor, 1st Secretary, 2nd secretary, MISSION OF GEORGIA TO THE EU, Brussels, Belgium
Sep 1998 – Apr 2002: Deputy Head of Division, 2nd secretary, attaché, EURO-INTEGRATION DEPARTMENT, MFA OF GEORGIA
Languages
– English, Russian – Professional Fluency
Additional skills and relevant facts
– Lecturer – International Black Sea University (European Integration studies), Tbilisi,
Georgia
– Senior Expert – the South Caucasus Institute for Regional Security, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Research Scholar – The University of Manitoba, Canada
– Publications – ISBN: 978-9941-0-0841-2, 978-9941-0-1534-2, 978-9941-0-0570-1,
978-9941-0-3302-5
Embassy in Tbilisi
Address: Tabidze 37d, 0179 Tbilisi
Telephone: (00995322) 914970-74
Fax: (00995322) 914980
Ε-mail: gremb.tbi@mfa.gr
Web-Site: http://www.mfa.gr/georgia
Emergency phone: (00995) 595 339299
Head of Mission: Eleftherios Proios
Consular Office in Tbilisi
Address : Andrea Razmadze 40, 0179 Tbilisi
Tel. : (00995322) 93981 941224 41225
Fax : (00995322) 250791
E-mail : grcon.tbi@mfa.gr
Head: Soultana Dimaraki
Commercial Section in Tbilisi
Address : 37D Tabitze str, 0179, Tbilissi
Tel. : (00995322) 942858
Fax : (00995322) 941886
E-mail : ecocom-tbilisi@mfa.gr
Web site: http://agora.mfa.gr/ge64
Head: Ioannis Dermetzoglou
Georgian embassy in Greece
27 Taigetou str. & Marathonodromon, 154 52, P. Psychiko
Tel: 210.674.21.86, Fax: 210.671.67.22
e-mail: embassygeo@hol.gr
Georgian consulate in Greece
27 Taygetou & Marathonodromon str.
154 52 P. Psychiko
Tel.: 210.74.89.180, 210.77.11.317
e-mail : proxenos@otenet.gr
