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1. MILLENNIUM PROGRAM TO EMBRACE GEORGIA
   (Daily News: May 7, 2004)

   Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania stressed at a meeting of the Cabinet today the importance of Georgia’s inclusion in the list of 16 developing countries to which the US will give financial assistance under the Millennium Program. This year the US has envisaged for the countries $1 billion in grant.

2. NEW AUTHORITIES IN AJARA
   (Daily News: May 6, 2004)

   Ajar leader Aslan Abashidze left Batumi and flew to Moscow after he had negotiations with Igor Ivanov, head of the Security Council of Russia, yesterday. “Abashidze has run, Ajara is free”, President Mikhail Saakashvili declared in a special address to the population, estimating the recent development as the “first successful precedent of the suppression of separatism in the post soviet space”.

3. AJARA FACING BIG CHANGES
   (Daily News: May 5, 2004)

   Under the order of the Georgian President, huge cement blocks marking the administrative border of the Ajar Autonomous Republic, which were set up by the leadership of the region, were removed in the evening. Nobody would ever be able to separate Ajara from rest of Georgia, President said in a special television address (around 7 p.m.).

4. HAZINESS SURROUNDING ZHINVALHES
   (Daily News: May 4, 2004)

   The city government will have to decide on further fate of ZhinvalHES, which is under the competence of Tbiltskalkanali, Tbilisi municipal water supply and sewerage company. The question will soon be raised, Zurab Mindeli, who is in charge of the sector in the city Sakrebulo (the self government body), told Sarke.

5. PARLIAMENT RATIFIES AIR COMMUNICATIONS AGREEMENT WITH GREAT BRITAIN AND TURKEY
   (Daily News: May 4, 2004)

   Today the Parliament has ratified the air communications agreement with the Great Britain by 155 votes to 3, and with Turkey by 157 to 4. The deputies emphasized the political importance of the decision.

6. PRIME MINISTER SPEAKS ABOUT POSSIBLE IMPLEMENTATION OF HIGHWAY OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECT
   (Daily News: May 3, 2004)

   Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania has said Georgia is in negotiations with an Italian concern on a project of a highway construction between Poti (western Georgia) and the Red Bridge (eastern part bordering on Azerbaijan). Response from Italy is expected in two-three weeks, Zhvania told journalists today.

7. AUTHORITIES GO BACK TO QUESTION OF CREATION OF FREE ECONOMIC ZONE
   (Daily News: May 3, 2004)

   The executive authorities intend to introduce the project of creation of a free economic zone (FEZ) in the Samegrelo region to the Parliament. Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania has said the poor economic situation in the region with a high level of unemployment has prompted the idea.

8. NEW TAX CODE TO ENTER PARLIAMENT BY THE END OF MAY
   (Daily News: May 3, 2004)

   Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania has told a meeting of the Financial-Budgetary Committee of the Parliament the new Tax Code will be submitted to the Parliament by the end of May. The amendments to the code would be not cosmetic but radical, he said.

9. BEATING PLAN OF BUDGET REVENUES IS THE RESULT OF BUSINESS LEGALIZATION, SAYS FINANCE MINISTER
   (Daily News: May 3, 2004)

   In January-April, 463.7 million was mobilized in the budget instead of projected 401.7 million, or the parameters were performed by 115%, Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli told a news conference today. He said the legalization of business and revenues had led to the result.

10. PARLIAMENT TO CONSIDER DRAFT BUDGET-2004 IN A SHORT TIME
    (Daily News: May 3, 2004)

    The authorities hope the Parliament will manage to adopt the budget-2004 two weeks before a meeting of the IMF Board of Directors, due on May 26. First consideration of the document was held today at a meeting of the Financial Budgetary Committee of Parliament.

11. GEORGIAN AUTHORITIES DENOUNCE ACTIVITIES OF AJAR LEADERSHIP
    (Daily News: May 3, 2004)

    President Mikheil Saakashvili has estimated blowing up bridges at the administration border of Ajar Autonomous Republic on May 2 by the decision of the leadership of the region, as a “rough provocation”. The President said Ajara leader Aslan Abashidze, who “wants to save himself through armed conflict”, had placed the Ajara population by that “under the threat of humanitarian catastrophe”.

12. NEW FACTS EMERGE IN THE CASE OF MURDERED CIA AGENT
    (Weekly Press Digest: May 2, 2004)

    Law enforcement bodies will be to review a case of Fred Woodrof, a 45-year CIA agent, officially an employee of the US embassy, who was killed in Georgia in August 1993. According to 24 Saati, Georgian investigators solved the case then.

13. GEORGIAN GOVERNMENTAL DELEGATION IS IN THE US
    (Daily News: April 26, 2004)

    On April 25, the governmental delegation led by Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania left for Washington, D.C. with a four-day working visit. Within the framework of the visit, the meetings with the US Secretary of State Collin Powell, US President adviser on National Security Condoleezza Rice, leadership of IMF and World Bank are to take place, according to the State Office.

14. POST-REVOLUTION CONCERNS
    (Weekly Press Digest: April 25, 2004)

    The new authorities, which are facing severe problems, will have to pass serious exam in the next few months, says Mamuka Tsereteli, the executive director of American-Georgian Business Council, in its article published by 24 Saati under the headline “Georgia after revolution”.

    The authorities are to meet expectation of better future, the revolution rose in them, says Tsereteli from Washington D.C. The population is expecting a “miracle” from the government and therefore accepts politicians’ promises regarding international aid with enthusiasm, but nobody is saying the country cannot flourish only at the expense of other’s help.

15. GEORGIA HOPES DONORS WILL SUPPORT EBRD INITIATIVE
    (Daily News: April 23, 2004)

    The EBRD initiative, which embraces seven developing countries of the former USSR, including Georgia, calls for an increase of their financing by 30 million EUR from the current 10 million. This will enable to raise investments to 150 million EUR each year from current 90 million.

16. THE GOVERNMENT CONFIRMS DRAFT BIDGET-2004
    (Daily News: April 21, 2004)

    Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli said after a government meeting today central budget revenues (grants including) would make up 1.052 billion lari, expenditure – 1.359 billion. State budget revenues are projected at 1.421 billion lari, while expenditure at 1.728 million.

17. GOVERNMENT DEFINES PRIORITIES AND HOPES TO RECEIVE ADDITIONAL HELP FROM DONORS
    (Daily News: April 20, 2004)

    On the threshold on a donors’ conference to be held in Brussels on June 16-17, the Cabinet is working on priorities in various sectors. Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania said the government was switching to “extraordinary regime of work” in order to attract additional help from donors.

18. THE US GIVES GEORGIA 50,000 T OF WHEAT AGAIN
    (Daily News: April 19, 2004)

    As part of humanitarian assistance to Georgia, the US government will allocate 50,000 tonnes of wheat. The adequate agreement is to be signed in Washington, D.C. on April 26, Sarke has been told at the Agriculture and Food Ministry.

19. CAPITAL HAS NEW MAYOR AND PREMIER
    (Daily News: April 19, 2004)

    Zurab Chiaberashvili has left the post of chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC) and become new mayor of Tbilisi. He replaced Vano Zodelava, who worked under the former President Shevardnadze.

20. TBILISI-BATUMI-TBILISI POLITICAL ROUTE
    (Weekly Press Digest: April 18, 2004)

    The Ajar problem is still in the limelight of the press. The confrontation between Tbilisi and Batumi has reached a fever pitch and neither of the sides is going to make concessions, says 24 Saati.

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