Daur Tarba (, ka, დაურ თარბა) is the current Minister for Agriculture of Abkhazia. In the past, he has also been Chairman of

United Abkhazia United Abkhazia (, ) is a political party in Abkhazia. United Abkhazia was founded on March 25, 2004, as a socio-political movement, with the specific goal of presenting a single opposition candidate for the October 2004 presidential elections.

at a time when it was the ruling party, Vice Premier and head of the

Ochamchira District Ochamchira District is a district of the partially recognized Abkhazia. Its capital is Ochamchire, the town by the same name. The district is smaller than the Ochamchire Municipality, Ochamchire district in the de jure Administrative divisions of ...

Career

After the election of Sergei Bagapsh as president of Abkhazia, Tarba was appointed head of the State Committee for State Property and Privatisation 24 February 2005. On 3 April 2007 Tarba was appointed head of the

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Президент Абхазии назначил главу Очамчирского района
04.04.2007 On 18 December 2008 Tarba was at his own request released from this post, and on 27 January 2009, during the congress in which the socio-political movement

was transformed into a political party, Tarba became its new chairman. After the re-election of Sergei Bagapsh as president, Tarba was appointed Vice Premier on 24 February 2010. However, on 25 February 2011, Tarba announced that he was resigning, without specifying a reason. His resignation was approved by President Bagapsh on 4 March. On 30 March, he was succeeded by Minister for Taxes and Levies Vakhtang Pipia. Tarba resigned as Chairman of United Abkhazia on 1 October 2015 in a letter to its political council, in which he identified excessive formalism and a lack of internal political debates, and called for the party's rejuvenation. The political council accepted his resignation and appointed Aleksei Tania as acting Chairman. In the sidelines of the party congress that followed Tarba's resignation, it was said that Tarba had resigned specifically to make room for his successor, long-time friend, former Prime Minister and sitting MP Sergei Shamba. On 24 August 2016, Tarba was appointed Agriculture Minister in the cabinet of the new Prime Minister Beslan Bartsits, succeeding Timur Eshba.

References

Living people United Abkhazia politicians Vice premiers of Abkhazia 3rd convocation of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia 1st convocation of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia Chairmen of the State Committee for State Property Management and Privatisation of Abkhazia Heads of Ochamchira District Ministers for agriculture of Abkhazia Year of birth missing (living people) {{Abkhazia-bio-stub