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The organisation and functions of the Office of the Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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Database of the CAHDI "The organisation and functions of the Office of the Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" - contribution of Georgia - 01/09/2014
Database of the CAHDI "The organisation and functions of the Office of the Legal Adviser in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs" - contribution of Georgia - 01/09/2014
1. What is the title, rank and position of the Legal Adviser?
(September 2014)The legal adviser holds the rank of Director and heads the International Law Department, hereinafter referred to as the Department, within the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia. He/she is subordinated to one of the Deputy-Ministers of Foreign Affairs and has two Deputy Directors who also may act as a Legal Adviser if needed. The Legal Adviser holds the highest diplomatic rank - Ambassador or the Envoy. The current Legal Adviser has the diplomatic rank of envoy.
2. What are the principal functions of the OLA?
The main tasks of the Department, which in practice performs the OLA function, include:- to bring foreign relations of Georgia in line with international legal norms, provide legal expertise of Georgia’s bilateral and multilateral international agreements and other international legal acts;
- Coordinating all the procedures concerning the conclusion of international treaties of Georgia on external and internal level;
- to ensure general surveillance over the implementation of all international agreements of Georgia, their analysis, monitoring, control, registration, systematization and preservation of originals;
- analyzing actual issues and themes of international law;
- preparing proposals on the conclusion, implementation, suspension and termination of Georgia’s international agreements;
- to implement the deposit and conservation of international agreements and concerned documentation in which Georgia is a state party;
- to perform the functions of depository in the name of Georgia;
- to ensure continuous collection, processing and updating of information on the international treaties;
- to co-ordinate the activity of the central specialized bodies and other public authorities of Georgia in order to enhance and develop the bilateral and multilateral legal framework;
- Whether necessary, participating in the process of preparing the materials necessary for representation of Georgia in international judicial bodies;
- Coordinating the elaboration process of reports envisaged by multilateral international treaties to which Georgia is a state party.
3. Please give a brief description of staff employed by the OLA, including overseas staff. What is the distribution of posts between men and women within the OLA and what category of staff do they respectively belong to?
The staff employed by the Department consists of 10 persons: Director, 2 Deputies, 2 Heads of division, one Counselor, 2 First Secretaries and 2 Third Secretaries. One employer is working on the base of contract.Staff consists of lawyers who are specialized in the field of international law. All members have at least completed Master studies and several of them are currently making PhD researches. Moreover, two employees of the department are lecturers.
Distribution of posts in the Department between men and women are as follows: 2 men and 8 women. Third secretary from the division of bilateral international treaties represents an ethnic minority of Kurdish people living in Georgia.