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Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili has visited France to take part in events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the recognition of the Democratic Republic of Georgia by France in Paris.

Zurabishvili participated in a ceremony dedicated to the memory of Georgian Vice-Colonel Dimitri Amilakhvari on September 26 and posthumously awarded him the Order of National Hero. She presented the state award to the descendants of Amilakhvari.

Zurabishvili wrote on her Twitter account that 100 years ago France became ‘a land of refuge’ for Georgians who fled the Red Army and continued to fight for a free Georgia. Amilakhvari, who was among them, became ‘a hero of the French Resistance’.

In addition, the Georgian diaspora gifted the bust of Amilakhvari to the French museums of the Foreign Legion (13th Brigade) and the Military Academy of Saint-Cyr, while a third bust was sent to Georgia.