Eduard Shevardnadze

Eduard Ambrosiyevich Shevardnadze Georgian ედუარდ ამბროსის ძე შევარდნაძე Eduard Ambrosis dze Ševardnadze 25 January 1928 7 July 2014 was a Georgian politician and diplomat He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party GPC the de facto leader of Soviet Georgia from 1972 to 1985 and as Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 Shevardnadze was responsible for many key decisions in Soviet foreign policy during the Gorbachev Era including reunification of Germany Following the dissolution of the Soviet Union he was President of Georgia or in equivalent posts from 1992 to 2003 He was forced to retire in 2003 as a consequence of the bloodless Rose Revolution wiki