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1. PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION FINAL RESULTS TO BE ANNOUNCED WITHOUT DATA FROM TWO DISTRICTS IN AJARA
   (Daily News: April 16, 2004)

   Zurab Chiaberashvili, the chairman of the Central Electoral Commission, has announced today about the intention to give up plans to hold repeat parliamentary elections in the Khulo and Kobuleti districts of the Ajara region. The CEC had been unable to implement technical provision of the elections, he said and blamed for that Ajar leader Aslan Abashidze.

2. ONE MORE STATE MINISTER TO BE IN CHARGE OF REGIONAL POLICY ISSUES
   (Daily News: April 15, 2004)

   Yesterday evening, Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania approved Zurab Melikishvili, representative of National Movement, as State Minister on issues of the regional policy and relations with self-government bodies. Melikishvili, 33, is a graduate of Tbilisi State University, the faculties of chemistry and the science of law.

3. TENSION RISES IN AJARA AGAIN
   (Daily News: April 14, 2004)

   Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania hopes international community will take active part in the settlement of the relationships between Tbilisi and Batumi. At a government meeting today he assigned Foreign Minister Salome Zurabishvili to prepare an adequate plan.

4. THE AJARA LEADER DENIES TO CONDUCT NEGOTIATIONS ON DISARMING
   (Daily News: April 13, 2004)

   Negotiations of Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania with the head of Ajara autonomy Aslan Abashidze, held today in Batumi, have not succeeded. According to Zhvania, Abashidze had denied even to begin the conversation about disarming of formations, created by him.

5. CABINET COUNCIL REMEMBERS SO-CALLED TURKISH CREDIT
   (Daily News: April 7, 2004)

   The Cabinet Council today considered issues regarding a $50-million loan issued to Georgia by Turkish Eximbank in 1992 and received by eight organizations. The total debt and fines to date have amounted to about $76 million.

6. GEORGIA TO HAVE ALTERNATIVE MANAGER ALONG WITH MANAGER AT EBRD
   (Daily News: April 7, 2004)

   A presidential decree is being prepared about appointment of alternative manager from Georgia at EBRD, Deputy Finance Minister Giorgi Tabuashvili, has told Sarke. He says Irakli Managadze, the President of the National Bank, is to be appointed as alternative manager.

7. GOVERNMENT TO INTRODUCE DRAFT BUDGET-2004 TO PARLIAMENT
   (Daily News: April 5, 2004)

   Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania has said the draft budget-2004 will be introduced to Parliament by April 15. However, it is not known yet when a new parliament has a first meeting.

8. BUDGET OVERFULFILLED BUT PROBLEMS WITH AJARA REMAIN
   (Daily News: April 2, 2004)

   Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania and Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli told a joint news conference today the budget had been overfulfilled. Central budget revenues amounted to 216.2 million lari instead of projected 178.2 million (or by 21% more).

9. FINANCE MINISTER NOGAIDELI BECOMES GEORGIA’S MANAGER AT WB AND EBRD
   (Daily News: April 2, 2004)

   Under the April 1 decree of the Georgian President, Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli was appointed manager of the World Bank (WB) from Georgia. By the same decree Mirian Gogiashvili, ex-finance minister, was released from the post.

10. TBILISI SENDS REPRESENTATIVES TO BATUMI AGAIN AND IS READY TO DELIMITATE POWERS BETWEEN CENTRAL AND REGIONAL GOVERNMENTS
    (Daily News: April 2, 2004)

    President Mikheil Saakashvili has declared today his readiness to launch work on a new draft on delimitation of powers between the central government and the Ajar Autonomous Republic. He is going to send Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania to Batumi for the purpose next week.

11. PRIME MINISTER THANKS LAW ENFORCEMENT BODIES FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO BUDGET REPLENISHMENT
    (Daily News: April 1, 2004)

    Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, has said thanks to efforts of the law enforcement bodies, some state officials of the former government, who are accused of various infringements, have returned up to 15 million lari to the state.

    The money will go completely to the budget, the Prime Minister told a news briefing today and thanked the law enforcement bodies for that.

12. AJAR LEADER HAS DOUBTS OVER PARLIAMENTARY ELECTION RESULTS
    (Daily News: March 31, 2004)

    Ajar leader Aslan Abashidze has said results of the March 28 parliamentary elections, under which Agordzineba appears off the Parliament, are fraudulent. We had been doomed to failure and the fraudulent election, he told journalists today.

13. ONLY TWO PARTIES APPEAR IN THE NEW PARLIAMENT
    (Daily News: March 31, 2004)

    The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) reported today on almost final results of the March 28 Parliamentary elections, according to which the governmental bloc National Movement – Democrats has taken 67.2% of the vote (1 million of over 1,532,521 voters that took part in the elections voted for the bloc), while 7.6% (116,824 of voters) cast their votes for Right Opposition (New Rights and Industrials).

    According to the chairman of the CEC Zurab Chiaberashvili, only 89 polling stations are left uncounted, the data of which will not make significant influence on the results.

14. REPEATED PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS HELD
    (Daily News: March 29, 2004)

    According to the Central Election Commission (CEC), 1.5 million citizens took part in the March 28 parliamentary elections, while there were 2.26 million voters registered. The governmental bloc National Movement – Democrats collected 74.9% of the vote.

15. SEVERAL ALTERNATIVES OF TBILISI AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT IN CONSIDERATION
    (Daily News: March 23, 2004)

    The Minister of Infrastructure and Development Tamar Sulukhia said works on the strategy of the reconstruction of the Tbilisi airport was underway, which would increase the quality of service.

    “The airport is one of the starting-points of our politics”, the Minister told a news briefing today, adding that it would be advisable to solve the question together with other bodies.

16. NEW FOREIGN MINISTER TAKES OVER
    (Daily News: March 22, 2004)

    Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili introduced to the staff of the Foreign Ministry and diplomatic crops today a new Foreign Minister, Salome Zurabishvili-Kashia. The latter until now was the acting ambassador of France to Georgia.

17. FORMER HEAD OF THE CIVIL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION TO BE HELD IN THREE-MONTH PRELIMINARY DETENTION
    (Daily News: March 19, 2004)

    The Mtatsminda-Krtsanisi district court of Tbilisi decided today to apply the preliminary detention on Zurab Chankotadze, former chairman of the Civil Aviation Administration. Chankotadze was detained at the beginning of March.

18. GEORGIAN PRESIDENT TO CONSIDER CURRENT CRISIS IN AJARA WITH ITS LEADER
    (Daily News: March 17, 2004)

    Parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze, who visited Batumi today, has reached an agreement with the authorities of Ajar Autonomous Republic, on a personal meeting between Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ajar leader Aslan Abashidze.

    Burjanadze has expressed hope that this meeting would make it possible to solve a number of issues and the relationships between the center and the region would go back to the normal.

19. LABORISTS ARE AGAINST INCREASING TARIFFS, RIGHT OPPOSITION PROPOSES TO DECREASE IT
    (Daily News: March 9, 2004)

    Labor Party thinks that introduction of a single bill from April 1 for the payment of electricity, gas and water will lead to an increase in tariffs. At the same time, the party claims that in case of the failure to pay for one of them the supply of all three will be cut.

20. ATTENTION, POLICE!
    (Weekly Press Digest: March 7, 2004)

    Georgia’s force system is on the brink of “non velvet nervous” crisis after the “velvet revolution”, says Dilis Gazeti in the article titled “post revolution chaos among force structures”.

    The Security Minister even needed the Interior Minister’s help to change heads of the security service of the border and therefore strategic region of Samegrelo – Zemo Svaneti, says the paper.

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