Maxim Gvinjia (, ka, მაქსიმ ღვინჯია) is the former
Minister of Foreign Affairs
In many countries, the ministry of foreign affairs (abbreviated as MFA or MOFA) is the highest government department exclusively or primarily responsible for the state's foreign policy and foreign relations, relations, diplomacy, bilateralism, ...
of
Abkhazia
Abkhazia, officially the Republic of Abkhazia, is a List of states with limited recognition, partially recognised state in the South Caucasus, on the eastern coast of the Black Sea, at the intersection of Eastern Europe and West Asia. It cover ...
. Before he was appointed on 26 February 2010 to replace
Sergei Shamba
Sergei Shamba (, ka, სერგეი შამბა) is a politician from Abkhazia. He is currently a member of the People's Assembly of Abkhazia and Chairman of United Abkhazia. He was Prime Minister of Abkhazia under President Sergei Bagaps ...
,
Gvinjia had served as Deputy Minister for Foreign Affairs since 1 March 2004.
Early life and career
Gvinjia was born on 13 March 1976 in
Sukhumi
Sukhumi or Sokhumi is a city in a wide bay on the Black Sea's eastern coast. It is both the Capital city, capital and largest city of Abkhazia, a partially recognised state that most countries consider a part of Georgia (country), Georgia. The ...
. In 1998, he graduated from the Gorlovsky State Institute for Foreign Languages in
Ukraine
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. Gvinjia is a member of the Abkhazian Committee to Ban
Land Mines
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and has written a number of papers on the subject.
In 2014,
Éric Baudelaire
Éric Baudelaire (born in 1973 in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) is a Franco-American artist and filmmaker.
Early life and education
Éric Baudelaire was born in Salt Lake City. He grew up in France, returned to the United States in 1991, to attend B ...
directed a documentary film, ''Letters to Max'', based on a correspondence with Gvinjia, to whom Baudelaire sent a series of letters from Paris to test whether the French postal system would deliver mail to a state it doesn't recognize. Gvinjia received many of the letters, and responded with voice recordings that became the voiceover for the film.
See also
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References
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Ministers for foreign affairs of Abkhazia
Living people
People from Sukhumi
1976 births