The newly elected Supreme Council of Adjara Autonomous Republic re-confirmed on December 5 Zurab Pataradze as the head of local government of the region.
Pataradze, who was nominated by President Giorgi Margvelashvili in agreement with the central government, was re-confirmed by the 21-member Supreme Council with 14 votes.
Pataradze, native of Batumi, worked at anti-organized crime unit of Adjara Autonomous Republic’s interior ministry before joining the Foreign Ministry in 2000. Since 2004 Pataradze was a second secretary at the Georgian embassy in Moscow in charge of consular service and after Georgia and Russia cut diplomatic ties, Pataradze served as a consular at the Georgian interests section at the Swiss embassy in Moscow till 2009. Pataradze then served as Georgia’s consul general in the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki and was ambassador to Turkey from 2012, before becoming ambassador to Kazakhstan in mid-2013.
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