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1. PRESIDENT, PARLIAMENT, STATE MINISTER AND DREAMS ABOUT PRIME-MINISTER
   (Weekly Press Digest: May 14, 2000)

   President’s representative in Kakheti region Giorgi Arsenishvili has been appointed on the post of the State Minister, out of the nominees – Tbilisi Mayor Vano Zodelava, President’s representative in Imereti region Temur Shashiashvili, GIOC president Giorgi Chanturia. As 7 Dge puts it, this appointment is the President’s one more surprise, inquiring whether it is reasonable to appoint such “not-political” figure, on this post amidst the accretion of power of the stateminister.

2. DISCUSSION ON THE 1999 BUDGET REPORT WILL HAVE A PRINCIPLED CHARACTER, THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENT SAID
   (Daily News: May 12, 2000)

   The Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania declared that the Parliament would necessarily consider the report on the 1999 budget implementation. He stressed that this consideration would bear a principled character and refused the information that allegedly there was some contradiction in the parliamentary minority upon this issue.

3. TRADITIONALISTS MIGHT LEAVE BATUMI ALLIANCE
   (Daily News: May 10, 2000)

   The Parliamentary fraction of the party Traditionalists’ Union declared about its intention to leave Batumi alliance in case Agordzineba participates in the formation of a new government of Georgia.

   It should be noted that the traditionalists’ leader Akaki Asatiani has collected more than 100 signatures of deputies supporting the demand to create the institute of Cabinet in the country (118 signatures are needed for submitting the question to the parliament).

4. AT LEAST 2 CHAIRMEN OF PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES WILL BE CHANGED
   (Daily News: May 9, 2000)

   As it has become known to Sarke, 2 out of 8 chairmen resigned yesterday did not attend today’s meeting with the Chairman of the Parliament. Yesterday, the President estimated the action of the chairmen, signing together with 120 deputies the declaration on the necessity to create the commission for the investigation of the government’s accountability in the economic crisis, as extremely untimely and indelicate.

5. DELEGATION OF CANADIAN PARLIAMENT WILL ARRIVE IN TBILISI
   (Daily News: May 9, 2000)

   The delegation is headed by the Chairman of the Foreign Relations and International Trade Committee Ben Graham. As Sarke was informed at the Public Information Department of the Foreign Ministry of Georgia, it is planned to hold meetings with the President Eduard Shevardnadze, Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania, acting State Minister Vazha Lortkipanidze and Foreign Minister Irakli Menagarishvili during the visit, lasting from May 11 through 14.

6. SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF UN SECRETARY GENERAL ON REFUGEES ARRIVED IN GEORGIA
   (Daily News: May 9, 2000)

   Francis Deng is going to participate in the regional workshop on refugees and displaced people to be conducted in Tbilisi. The representatives of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia will take part in the conference conducted with the participation of the UN High Commissariat of Refugees (UNHCR) by the OSCE support.

7. NEW TAX CORRUPTION INDEX ELABORATED IN GEORGIA
   (Daily News: May 8, 2000)

   The Economics Minister Vladimir Papava has elaborated indexes, enabling to estimate the corruption level in the tax system, on the ground of common index theories. According to the proposal of the Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania they are entitled as Papava’s indexes.

8. ENTREPRENEURS GOING TO SUPPORT ARSENISHVILI’S CANDIDATURE ON THE POST OF THE STATE MINISTER
   (Daily News: May 8, 2000)

   As the representative of the fraction Entrepreneurs Zurab Tkemaladze informed Sarke, he is confident in Arsenishvili’s ability to implement the President’s program for coming out of the crisis. According to Tkemaladze, Giorgi Arsenishvili is “an excellent candidature”.

9. CHAIRMEN OF 8 PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEES HAVE RESIGNED
   (Daily News: May 8, 2000)

   The Chairmen of the Committees on Sectoral Economics Zurab Tskitishvili, Economic Policy Levan Gachechiladze, Taxes and Revenues Zurab Nogaideli, Social Welfare and Health David Gamkrelidze, Agrarian David Kirvalidze, Procedures and Rules Roland Giligashvili, Foreign Affairs Nino Burjanadze and Human Rights Elene Tevdoradze are among those, who resigned. This happened as a result of the closed session of the chairmen of committees, held under the chairmanship of Zurab Zhvania today.

10. PRESIDENT OF THE OSCE PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY VISITING GEORGIA
    (Daily News: April 24, 2000)

    Helle Dagn, who arrived in Tbilisi on April 23, met the Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania today. She suggested that “results of the parliamentary and presidential elections showed that, in terms of the institutional arrangement and political processes underway in the country, Georgia is coming closer to the European standards, so the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly is ready to expand cooperation with Georgia in all directions”.

11. GOVERNMENT IS TO CHANGE. DOT
    (Weekly Press Digest: April 23, 2000)

    The President and the Chairman of the parliament have matured and proceeded to the real activities – this is the estimation given to the last week’s affairs by all the newspapers actually. This is about the government session, during which, Eduard Shevardnadze threatened “two-headed ministers” (Meridiani estimates this as President’s unwillingness to put up with the ministers, who overlap portfolios with their shares in the commercial enterprises), as well as Zurab Zhvania’s program address to the session, declaring that “the Parliament has run out of all its limits of compromises and concessions while appointing ministers” (7 Dge).

12. OSCE WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE ELABORATION OF THE GEORGIA’S ELECTION CODE
    (Daily News: April 20, 2000)

    This is the announcement made by the head of the OSCE Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights Nikolai Vulchanov during his meeting with the Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania on April 17. They considered results of the April 9 presidential elections in Georgia.

13. CHAIRMAN OF THE PARLIAMENT CALLED FOR DEPUTIES TO MAKE MAXIMUM EFFORTS FOR THE SETTLEMENT OF RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA
    (Daily News: April 19, 2000)

    Yesterday, Zurab Zhvania, addressing the Parliament, declared that that the present Parliament was to necessarily ascertain and state the common interests with Russia as well as the questions, enabling to find understanding between the countries. He considers it necessary at the same time, to define the questions, representing the spheres of the national interests of Georgia, “questions, we will not meet them halfway by no means”.

14. PARLIAMENT SET ABOUT THE DISCUSSION OF THE QUESTION ON AJARA STATUS
    (Daily News: April 18, 2000)

    The Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania while addressing Parliament refused the probability that the decision over making amendments to the constitution was adopted as a result of the secret agreement between the central and Ajarian authorities. Moreover, he declared that the ruling Citizens’ Union and the Revival Union would remain to be the political opponents.

15. GENADI SELEZNYOV’S VISIT EXPECTED IN THE NEAR FUTURE
    (Daily News: April 18, 2000)

    The Chairman of the State Duma of Russia will visit Georgia by the invitation of his Georgian counterpart Zurab Zhvania. The ambassador of Georgia in Russia Malkhaz Kakabadze submitted invitation to Genadi Seleznyov.

16. FIELD OF HONOR: GEORGIA AFTER ELECTIONS
    (Weekly Press Digest: April 16, 2000)

    7 Dge evaluates the past elections, as the most dishonorable action, committed by the authority for the past years. The results (70% of those casting the vote and 80% voting for Shevardnadze) amidst mess poverty, social apathy and nihilism” have arisen strong feelings in the newspaper.

17. OSCE DECIDED TO STRENGTHEN MONITORING ON THE CHECHEN SECTION OF THE GEORGIAN-RUSSIAN BORDER
    (Daily News: April 14, 2000)

    The Foreign Minister of Austria Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the acting chairman of the OSCE Permanent Council, has welcomed the decision of the organization, adopted at the session in Vienna. According to the press release of the OSCE mission, the decision has been adopted because of the need to strengthen monitoring for the summer time, when the passages via the Caucasian ridge open.

18. HUNGER-STRIKING PRISONERS HAVE BEEN PROMISED TO CONSIDER THEIR AMNESTY
    (Daily News: April 10, 2000)

    According to the Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania, who visited the republican prison hospital and met the prisoners on the elections’ eve, the extraordinary session of the Parliament will be summoned till April 18 and will consider this issue. As it has been already informed, the prisoners threatened to commit suicide on the election day.

19. PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS IN GEORGIA ACKNOWLEDGED TO BE CONDUCTED
    (Daily News: April 10, 2000)

    According to the Central Electoral Commission (CEC), by 9 p.m. the votes were shared the following way: 80.5% voted for Eduard Shevardnadze, 16.6% – for Jumber Patiashvili, 0.26% – Kartlos Garibashvili, 0.2% – Avtandil Joglidze, 0.1% – Tengiz Asanidze, 0.08% – Vazha Zhgenti (after 97% of voters cast their vote). The information is being further specified, the CEC is to present the final results for the elections in 20 days.

20. AJARA CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS MIGHT BE CONSIDERED BY THE PARLIAMENT IN THE NEAR FUTURE
    (Daily News: April 6, 2000)

    This possibility was not excluded by the Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania during his meeting with Batumi journalists held after the meeting with the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ajara Autonomy Aslan Abashidze. He stressed that during the meeting, the question concerning the autonomy’s status had been discussed, refusing assumptions that issues over presidential elections had been considered as well.

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