Ex-head of Georgia’s Adjara region, Saakashvili ally, to chair United Investment Office in Ukraine
Levan Varshalomidze served as the head of the Adjara government between 2004 and 2012. Photo: Imedi TV.
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Levan Varshalomidze, who headed the government of Georgia’s autonomous Adjara region between 2004 and 2012, will chair the United Investment Office in Ukraine which will be created soon, Ukrainian media outlets cited President Volodymyr Zelensky as saying.
Zelensy said that Varshalomidze, 48, who made friends with former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili while studying at Kyiv State University in the 1990s, ‘built Batumi’ (Georgia’s coastal city in the west of the country).
Saakashvili has been recently appointed as the chair of the executive committee of the Ukrainian National Reforms Council, the decision which was not welcomed in Georgia.
Varshalomidze assumed office in the adjara region of Georgia in 2004 following the resignation of Aslan Abashidze, who fled the country during the crisis in the region.
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