Inal Ardzinba

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rdf:langString Inal Ardzinba

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rdf:langString Inal Batuvych Ardzinba (Abkhazian: Инал Арӡынба, Russian: Инал Батувич Ардзинба; born 26 July 1990) is the current Minister for Foreign Affairs of Abkhazia. In 2013, he became a member of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. Beginning in 2014, Ardzinba worked in the federal Russian administration, eventually becoming deputy of Vladislav Surkov, then an Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation. In 2016, he played a prominent role in the Surkov leaks. Ardzinba pleads for the BRICS to play a leading role in world politics, after Russia was expelled from the Group of Eight. He had attended the Youth 8 Summit in Washington, D.C. as part of the Russian delegation. In January 2020, Ardzinba founded the party. Until then he was considered to be close to the party Amtsakhara. Shortly thereafter, Ardzinba supported then-opposition candidate Aslan Bzhania in the 2020 Abkhazian presidential election. In 2021, president Bzhania appointed Ardzinba to be the foreign minister of Abkhazia. His appointment was a surprise for many experts on the region. He is the youngest man to ever hold the office. After he was elected, he said that the deepening of cooperation with Russia is a priority for Abkhazia’s foreign policy. In January 2022, Ardzinba stopped the EU's and UNDP's confidence-building COBERM program in Abkhazia. In July 2022, Ardzinba proposed to move the Geneva International Discussions "to another more neutral city" like Minsk or Istanbul. According to Yevgeny Yasin, Vladislav Ardzinba is Inal Ardzinba's uncle.