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1. PARLIAMENT CHAIRMAN IS NOT AFRAID OF RESIGNATION
   (Daily News: September 7, 2001)

   Today, Zurab Zhvania officially made a suggestion to start collecting signatures with demand over his resignation. He expressed readiness to resign in case, even if 100 MPs come against him.

2. EX-MINISTER OF TAX REVENUES ALREADY ENGAGED
   (Daily News: September 6, 2001)

   Mikheil Machavariani, having resigned in August, is returning in the Parliament. Before appointed on the post, Mikheil Machavariani had been MP and Secretary General of the Citizens’ Union, the ruling party.

3. MAJORITY REPRESENTATIVES APPEAL OPPOSITION TO COLLABORATION
   (Daily News: September 6, 2001)

   The majority reformatory wing is ready to cooperate with the opposition to enter alterations in the law on local self-government system, adopted by the Parliament at the fall session this year. MPs Zurab Adeishvili, Vano Merabishvili and Vasil Maglaperidze from the ruling party Citizen’s Union, stated about it today at the press conference.

4. NO SINGLE STANCE IN THE MAJORITY
   (Daily News: September 3, 2001)

   Today the parliamentary majority considered an appeal to President. The appeal has the same nature as an open letter written to the head of the state by the speaker of Parliament, which published last week.

5. SESSION OF POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLY OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE IS RUNNING IN TBILISI
   (Daily News: September 3, 2001)

   Circuit 2-days meeting of political committee will be held behind the closed doors. According to the Georgian Parliament press service, the session discusses the issues of regional security and cooperation, provision of stability in the Caucasus.

6. WILL TBILISI AIRPORT BE CLOSED AT NIGHT?
   (Daily News: August 30, 2001)

   Chairman of the administration of the civil aviation, Zurab Perishvili, sent a letter to the leadership of the Tbilisi airport, which contained an order to close the airport at night. This decision was motivated by ecological aspects and by the fact that the noise made by planes when taking off and landing bothered residents of near residential quarters.

7. GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT PREFERS TO GET WB TRANCHES SEPARATELY
   (Daily News: August 30, 2001)

   The World Bank postponed the allocation of the second and third tranches of SAC-3, each $20 million, because of Georgia’s failure to meet a number of conditions. At the moment, Tbilisi can count on getting the second tranche as all conditions set by the WB have been actually met, said Temur Basilia, President’s aid on economic issues.

8. NEGOTIATIONS ON NUMBER OF FLIGHTS MOSCOW-TBILISI ARE BEING CONTINUED
   (Daily News: August 29, 2001)

   The issue on the increase of number of weekly flights between Tbilisi and Moscow was being discussed in the capital of Russia the other day. The Georgian delegation, at the negotiations with the Russian air company Aeroflot, represents Adeishvili, Minister of Transport and Communications and Zurab Perishvili, head of Civil Aviation Administration.

9. FINANCE MINISTER RENEWS HIS STAND AGAINST BAR ON SCRAP METAL EXPORTS
   (Daily News: August 15, 2001)

   Motivating his stance at a government session today, the Finance Minster, Zurab Nogaideli referred to the necessity to regard economic factors. He remarked that the revenues from the scrap metal exported amounts $100 million and if the export was put under a ban a trade balance in the country would see an adequate decline, which in turn would lead to the devaluation of the national currency.

10. ECONOMICS AND FINANCE MINISTERS HOLD DIFFERENT OPINIONS ON BUDGET RESERVES
    (Daily News: August 15, 2001)

    The Finance Minister, Zurab Nogaideli and the Minister of Economics, Industry and Trade, Vano Chkhartishvili, stated their position on the parameters of the budget-2002 at a government session today. The draft of the budget was prepared and introduced to Parliament by the Finance Ministry.

11. DIVISIONS OVER EXPROPRIATION OF ILLEGAL PROPERTY IN PARLIAMENT AND GOVERNMENT
    (Daily News: August 10, 2001)

    Chairman of the parliamentary Committee on Juridical Issues and Legality, Zurab Adeishvili held a press-conference today in support of the bill, prepared by the Justice Ministry. The bill “On Rules of Transferring Illegal and Unfounded Property to the State” was introduced to a government session on August 8 and faced opposition from a number of ministers.

12. HEADS OF FINANCE MINISTER AND NATIONAL BANK CAN NOT COME TO TERMS
    (Daily News: August 8, 2001)

    Zurab Nogaideli, Finance Minister stated last week, that for budget problems the government would not repay its indebtedness towards the National Bank (NB). Moreover, in case they fail to get foreign aid (Georgia failed to implement range of terms and the World Bank postpones credit allocations) the government, according to Minister, would take an additional credit from NB.

13. EXPORPRIATION OF ROPERTY OF UNCONSCIONABLE OFFICIALS FACES OPPOSITION
    (Daily News: August 8, 2001)

    The Justice Minister, Michael Saakashvili, introduced the bill “On rules of Transferring Illegal and Unfounded Property to the State” to a government session today. The document applies to those officials who must introduce their property declarations.

14. FINANCE MINISTER RECOGNIZED INEVITABILITY OF BUDGET CORRECTION
    (Daily News: August 2, 2001)

    According to the estimation of Finance Minister, they will have to reduce the state budget-2001 by 225 million Lari. This sum consists of 80 million, which the government does not expect from the privatization of the state property, and 145 million – credits of the World Bank (WB).

15. POSSIBILITY OF SEQUESTER OF BUDGET 2001 IS BEING COMMENTED IN THE PARLIAMENT
    (Daily News: August 1, 2001)

    The Parliament opposition does not support the budget sequester. As David Gamkrelidze, leader of the fraction New Rightists stated, it is indispensable to raise an issue on the responsibility of appropriate figures.

16. BUDGET IS ALREADY BEING ADJUSTED
    (Daily News: July 30, 2001)

    As Finance Minister, Zurab Nogaideli told Sarke, sources of covering of budget deficit had suffered changes. According to him, in that planned funds would not enter from foreign financing sources, partially they would be covered at the expense of the loan from the National Bank and in a small volume at the expense of sums, envisaged for foreign debt servicing.

17. LONG-AWAITED SESSION OF PARLIAMENT TO BE HELD ON JULY 27
    (Daily News: July 26, 2001)

    Participants of a session will consider the Law on Local Government. Today, consultations on the matter continued all day.

18. RIGHT AFTER SIGNING AGREEMENT AEROFLOT REQUESTS GEORGIAN SIDE TO REVIEW IT
    (Daily News: July 20, 2001)

    Zurab Perishvili, dead of the civil aviation of Georgia, visited Moscow this week to negotiate with the Russian air company Aeroflot. As the source at the State Office told Sarke, the sides signed an agreement on the air communications on parity basis.

19. MORATORIUM ANNOUNCED ON RAW TIMBER EXPORTS
    (Daily News: July 20, 2001)

    The decision to put timber exports under a ban until January 1, 2002 was adopted at an extraordinary session of Parliament today. The step aims to put under restraint timber clearance for exports, which has acquired a wide scale recently.

20. SCARCE FINANCES NOT LET GEORGIAN GOVERNMENTAL DELEGATION CONDUCT WORKING VISIT TO MOSCOW
    (Daily News: July 19, 2001)

    A session of the Georgian governmental delegation and the Russian government, to be held on June 18-19, has been postponed for indefinite time. As Sarke was informed by the source at the State Office, Zurab Nogaideli, the Finance Minister, refused to allocate the necessary sum (no more than $3,000), motivating decision by financial difficulties.

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