The university has also educated 26 foreign Heads of State, including President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili, President of East Timor Jose Ramos Horta, President of Estonia Toomas Hendrik Ilves and other historical figures such as Wellington Koo, Gaston Eyskens, and T. V. Soong.

Later, Zhvania's close friend and a long-time ally, Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli was appointed for the post by President Saakashvili.

President Saakashvili ranked first with 33 %-an all-time low for the Georgian President-whilst no other individual managed to surpass double-digit levels of support.

On November 7, 2007, during a period of mass protests, President Saakashvili declared Tbilisi to be in a state of emergency.

There were massive demonstrations and protests by the civil opposition, demanding the resignation of President Saakashvili.

President Saakashvili rejected all demands that he resign his position, but announced early presidential elections to be held in January 2008, effectively cutting his term in office by a year.

Mikheil Saakashvili resigned from the position of the President on November 25, 2007 as the Constitution of Georgia requires the president stands down at least 45 days before the next election to be eligible for retaking part him / herself.

* 2004 – Mikheil Saakashvili is elected President of Georgia following the November 2003 Rose Revolution.

* December 21 – Mikheil Saakashvili, President of Georgia

The creation of a new FEZ was officially inaugurated by the President of Georgia Mikheil Saakashvili on April 15, 2008.

Israel's 60th independence day celebration in Tbilisi, Georgia attended by Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili

In August 2008, Lévy reported from South Ossetia, Georgia during the 2008 South Ossetia war ; on that occasion he interviewed the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili.

The leader of the opposition Mikhail Saakashvili stated he would guarantee Shevardnadze's safety and support his return as President provided he promised to call early presidential elections.

Mikheil Saakashvili (, ; born 21 December 1967 ) is a Georgian politician, the third and current President of Georgia and leader of the United National Movement Party.

Involved in national politics since 1995, he became president on 25 January 2004 after President Eduard Shevardnadze resigned in the November 2003 bloodless " Rose Revolution " led by Saakashvili and his political allies, Nino Burjanadze and Zurab Zhvania.

After graduation, while on internship in the New York law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in early 1995, Saakashvili was approached by Zurab Zhvania, an old friend from Georgia who was working on behalf of President Eduard Shevardnadze to enter politics.

On 12 October 2000, Saakashvili became Minister of Justice for the government of President Shevardnadze.

Saakashvili was sworn in as President in Tbilisi on 25 January 2004.

President Saakashvili sees membership of the NATO as a premise of stability for Georgia and offered an intensified dialogue with the de facto Abkhaz and Ossetian authorities.

In August of the same year, Saakashvili, who holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Haifa, travelled to Israel to attend the opening of the official Week of Georgian-Jewish Friendship, held under the auspices of the Georgian President, for which the Jewish leaders were invited as honoured guests.

On 10 May 2005, while U. S. President George W. Bush was giving a speech in Tbilisi's Freedom Square, Vladimir Arutyunian threw a live hand grenade at where Saakashvili and Bush were sitting.

On 8 November 2007, President Saakashvili announced a compromise solution to hold early presidential elections for 5 January 2008.

President François Mitterrand acted as host for invited world leaders.

In 2007, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was one of those invited to speak on campus.

The committee for the November 19 Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg invited President Lincoln: " It is the desire that, after the Oration, you, as Chief Executive of the nation, formally set apart these grounds to their sacred use by a few appropriate remarks.

His links with cricket were renewed when he was invited to become Honorary President of Kent-based wandering cricket club, Paraguayan Elbows CC.

The Chief Scout is nominated by the Scouting Association's National Executive Committee and is invited by the President of the Scout Association to accept the appointment.

In 2008, the President of Liberia Ellen Johnson Sirleaf was invited to visit India.

Lane invited Mather to come to Washington, DC to work with him to draft and see passage of the National Park Service Organic Act, which the 64th United States Congress enacted and which President Woodrow Wilson signed into law on August 25, 1916.

He is invited by the President of India in the Parliament of India as leader of the majority party to form a government at the federal level ( known as Central or Union Government in India ) and exercise its powers.

Following the signing of Treaties of Nice in May 2001, which made Brussels the de facto capital of the European Union, the then President of the European Commission, Romano Prodi and the Belgian Prime Minister Guy Verhofstadt invited Koolhaas to discuss the necessities and requirements of a European capital.

" Former American Psychological Association President Dr. Nicholas Cummings was the Keynote Speaker at the 2011 NARTH Conference and said that he had a " high regard " for NARTH and considered it an honor to be invited to speak at NARTH's scientific gathering.

Sosa was honored with a ticker-tape parade in his honor in New York City, and he was invited to be a guest at US President Bill Clinton's 1999 State of the Union Address.

In August 1981, the Senegalese military was invited into The Gambia by President Dawda Kairaba Jawara to put down a coup attempt.

President Kabbah open dialogue with the RUF and invited RUF leader Foday Sankoh for peace negotiation.

President Warren G. Harding also invited his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge, to meetings.

General Henri Giraud was incredulous when he heard of Patton's dismissal by Eisenhower in late 1945, and invited him to Paris to be decorated by President Charles de Gaulle at a state banquet.

President Steyn of the Orange Free State invited Milner and Kruger to attend a conference in Bloemfontein.

In 1999, Dembski was invited by Robert B. Sloan, President of Baylor University, to establish the Michael Polanyi Center at the university.

The Chief of Staff to the President, Counsel to the President, and the Assistant to the President for Economic Policy are also invited to attend any NSC meeting.

United States President Bill Clinton invited Jones to perform on New Year's Eve at the 2000 millennium celebrations in Washington, D. C.

He was invited and then trained with former US Vice President Al Gore as a Climate Change Presenter ( now named Climate Reality ), launched Clean up the World Day with The UN in New York, and is an Ambassador for Greenpeace, Australian Conservation Foundation, Planet Ark and National Tree Day.

The peace conference began when President Theodore Roosevelt invited both countries to conduct direct negotiations at the neutral site of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.