Eduard Shevardnadze: ordinary person with an ambiguous acts
The former head of Georgia and the last foreign Minister of the USSR Eduard Shevardnadze died on the first day of the week in Tbilisi. For His 86 years, He managed to visit and major Soviet party functionary, and one of the creators of Gorbachev's " perestroika ", and After the destruction of the Soviet Union - not less than ten years - the leader of an independent Georgia.
Like every major politician, He was an extraordinary personality, acts which cannot be evaluated unambiguously. Credit Shevardnadze put the unification of Germany and the end of the " cold war ". However, his activity on the post of the head of the foreign Ministry by some experts is characterized by surrender of foreign policy of the USSR, where, for example, include the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Eastern Europe.
in the period of Shevardnadze at the post of foreign Minister harsh criticism has been signed the contract Between the USSR and the USA on the delimitation economic zones and continental shelf in the Chukchi and Bering seas.
It is on the presidency of Shevardnadze was the Georgian-Abkhazian war of 1992-1993, which served as a prologue to the final separation of Abkhazia from Georgia and led to the appearance of many thousand Georgian immigrants.
Ex-President of Georgia has survived two assassination attempts in 1995 and 1998. Although Shevardnadze twice elected to the post of the head of the country, a true national leader, He did not, he is often criticized for economic difficulties, and the rapid social stratification of population, and for failing to return South Ossetia and Abkhazia in Georgia.
We can say that Shevardnadze had to suffer the fate of Margaret Thatcher As " iron lady ", He was more popular abroad, in the EU than in their own country. After the " rose revolution " and early retirement in November 2003, Shevardnadze lived in a private house in Tbilisi, he wrote his memoirs, and have strongly criticized the policy of President Saakashvili. Anyway, This has not stopped for him to call for a boycott of the Russian Olympics in Sochi.
in connection with the death of former President condolences expressed political figures of Georgia and foreign countries.
According to the ex-President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma, " Eduard Amvrosievich was a great friend of Ukraine and his great contribution to the development of friendship and cooperation Between Georgia and Ukraine is invaluable ". In addition, Kuchma said that the death Shevardnadze is an irreparable loss, and he himself, As ex-presidents were linked close human relations.
Minister of foreign Affairs of Latvia Edgar Rinkevich, for his part, expressed his condolences and said contribution Shevardnadze at the end of the " cold war." He did everything in their power to " cold war " has ended. Very sad news about the death of Eduard Shevardnadze, condolences to the family and Georgian people ", - He wrote his microblog Twitter.
According to the former President of Turkey Ahmet Necdet Sezer, President Shevardnadze has produced only positive steps " in the development of Turkish-Georgian relations and was a valuable politician." I was familiar with Eduard Shevardnadze from his work in the Ministry of foreign Affairs of the USSR. When He became President of Georgia, in the context of Turkish-Georgian relations He has made only positive steps that went for the benefit of our both countries. It was a very valuable politician, a wonderful man, " said the Last news on the first day of the week the ex-President of Turkey, who ran the country from 2000 to 2007.
The former President of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev, who in 1985 and translated the Greek Minister of foreign Affairs of the USSR in the capital of Russia, called Shevardnadze " talented politician and a true representative of the people of Georgia ". For its part, the Head of the state Duma on CIS Affairs Leonid Slutsky, noting that Shevardnadze was an important figure for the USSR and the Soviet Georgia, showed that He created the centrifugal tendencies for Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
the head of Georgia Giorgi Margvelashvili called Shevardnadze one of the most outstanding politicians of the XX century." It was a politician, whose name is associated with the destruction of the walls of Europe and the formation of the new Europe, " He said.
foreign Minister Maia panjikidze remembered that period, When in the times of Shevardnadze's rule, she worked in the Georgian Embassy in Germany." in Germany everyone treated him with great respect and appreciation, " she said.
His condolences expressed and Former head Mikhail Saakashvili, forcing Shevardnadze to resign in 2003. True, He did, somehow, through Facebook." Eduard Shevardnadze was an important figure of the Soviet Empire and the post-Soviet Georgia, on the assessment of the role for a long time it will work history and historians, " wrote Saakashvili on his official page.
The funeral of ex-President of Georgia will take place on July 13. According to the information of the Georgian Agency Commersant, Shevardnadze has the opportunity to be buried very close with his wife - in Krtsanisi residence, or in gibbison the Pantheon, the burial place of the most famous writers, artists, scientists and national hero of Georgia. The exact burial place will be known After the joint decision of family members and special state Commission on organizing the funerals, which was created at the request of the Prime Minister of Georgia, Irakli Garibashvili.
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