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Conventional Armed Forces in Europe. He participated in various important high-level summits, including the
Budapest Summit of 1994, the Lisbon Summit of 1996 and the Istanbul Summit of 1999. Zalkaliani actively participated in the process of negotiations for the withdrawal of Russian military bases from the territory of Georgia. During Zalkaliani's diplomatic tenure in Austria, the Georgian mission in Vienna was represented by the prominent Georgian diplomat, Ambassador Levan Mikeladze. Later, Zalkaliani joined Mikeladze, when Mikeladze became actively involved in social and political activities.
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successfully concluded on the 27th of June of 2014 with the ceremonious signing of the
Association Agreement, between the European Union and Georgia, including the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Area (DCFTA) component. From 2012 to 2014 Zalkaliani was a Chief Negotiator from the Georgian side in the Geneva International Discussions and the Co-Chair of working groups of U.S.-Georgia Charter on Strategic Partnership.
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In 2015 Zalkaliani continued his diplomatic career as an executive director in the newly founded Levan
Mikeladze Foundation. During his tenure, his activities included, inter alia, research of public politics, and advocacy projects implementation, capacity building for diplomats, holding academic and
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In 2004 Zalkaliani continued his diplomatic career in
Uzbekistan having served as an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Georgia to the Republics of Uzbekistan and Tajikistan. In the above period the bilateral relations between the countries were considerably intensified in the political
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Counsellor at the Embassy of Georgia to the Republic of Austria and the Permanent Mission of Georgia to the OSCE and International Organizationβs in Vienna. He took part in the negotiating process on the text of the Agreement on Adaptation of the Treaty on
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Ambassador and entered politics along a group of like-minded people. He actively participated in the creation of the political party β βFree Democratsβ, that was followed by the victory of the βGeorgian Dreamβ coalition in 2012 parliamentary elections.
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Georgia to claim a place of its own within the system of international relations, by joining appropriate international organizations. During the same period Georgia started cooperating with the European Community, which in 1992
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recognized Georgia's independence. Back in those years, cooperation between Georgia and the European Community was mainly focused on humanitarian and technical issues, in which Zalkaliani was actively involved.
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