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1. RULING PARTY HAS HAD INTERIOR MINISTER ON THE CARPET
   (Daily News: November 1, 2000)

   An extraordinary cession of the Parliament fraction Citizen’s Union, held on October 31, was motivated by Minister’s interview published in the newspaper, where Kakha Targamadze stated, the stabilization in the country is his merit, and Citizen’s Union struggles against him.

   Minister, invited to the meeting, stated, that he had not meant the whole ruling party, but certain individuals, in particular Zurab Nogaideli (Finance Minister) and Mikheil Saakashvili (Justice Minister).

2. QUESTION ON IMF ASSISTANCE RESUMPTION TO GEORGIA MAY BE SOLVED AT THE END OF THE YEAR
   (Daily News: October 27, 2000)

   As it was noted at the briefing, held with the participation of the head of the fund David Owen today, the question on the resumption of the assistance will be raised if the economic program of Georgia is approved at the meeting of the IMF board of Directors, due to be held in the second half of December. Presumably, this is about allocation of $150 million for 3 years.

3. BELGIAN VICE-PREMIER DUE TO VISIT GEORGIA ON NOVEMBER 6-8
   (Daily News: October 27, 2000)

   According to the Georgian Foreign Ministry, Lois Michael, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade, Development and Cooperation of Belgium, is going to meet President Eduard Shevardnadze, the Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania, the State Minister Giorgi Arsenishvili and Foreign Minster Irakli Menagarishvili. Lois Michael will also meet Catholicos-Patriarch Ilia II.

4. RETURN VISIT OF THE FOREIGN MINISTER OF TURKEY TO BE HELD ON OCTOBER 25-26
   (Daily News: October 24, 2000)

   During the visit Ismail Cem will meet President Eduard Shevardnadze, the State Minister Giorgi Arsenishvili, the Chairman of the Parliament Zurab Zhvania. The attention will be focused on the regional security provision, development of the economic and military cooperation.

5. QUESTION ON GEORGIA’S CLAIMS FOR THE FORMER USSR PROPERTY REMAINS OPEN
   (Daily News: October 23, 2000)

   At the meeting between President Shevardnadze and Russian Vice-premier Klebanov, held on October 19, the question concerning Georgia’s claims for the property of the former USSR was not raised, said the President’s press secretary Kakha Imnadze. According to Imnadze, Klebanov is not ready for discussing this question and his statement, that Georgia’s claims are not “real”, was premature.

6. PRESIDENT NOT SATISFIED WITH HIS REPRESENTATIVE'S ACTIVITIES IN THE PARLIAMENT
   (Daily News: October 18, 2000)

   President must not learn about the processes in the Parliament from the evening news, said today at the government session Eduard Shevardnadze, expressing dissatisfaction with the work of Zurab Marakvelidze. In this connection, he stressed that at the meetings of the parliamentary committees Marakvelidze was to protect the interests of the President and express his views about the issues under consideration.

7. TBILISI MAYOR’S OFFICE SEEKS TO CLEAN THE CAPITAL
   (Daily News: October 17, 2000)

   The concept of sanitary clearing improvement of the city, calculated for 2000-2005, has been elaborated, reported the spokesman for the Tbilisi Mayor’s Office Zurab Adamia. The concept has been prepared by the recommendation of the WordBank.

8. STABILITY IN EUROPE IS INCREDIBLE WITHOUT STABILITY IN CAUCASUS, THINKS GEORGIA
   (Daily News: October 13, 2000)

   A 2-day workshop “The South Caucasus in a Big Europe under Construction” has set to work today. Parliamentary delegations of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belorus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania and France are participating in the workshop, organized by the assistance of the Fund of Robert Schuman.

9. AZERBAIJAN IS READY TO BROADEN FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIPS WITH GEORGIA
   (Daily News: October 12, 2000)

   Chairman of Azerbaijani Milli-Mejlis, Murtuz Aleskerov stated this today, in the coarse of his visit in Tbilisi. According to Georgian Parliament’s press services, during his meeting with Chairman of Parliament Zurab Zhvania, Aleskerov stressed, “We have always been together when realizing those strategic aims, that politically and economically mean stabilized South Caucasus”.

10. PRESIDENT HAS NOT RULED OUT GEORGIA’S DEBT CLEARING TOWARDS RUSSIA
    (Daily News: October 10, 2000)

    Russia has its interests in Georgia, stated president Shevardnadze at the briefing on October 9, arguing the possibilities of clearing. In addition he noted, that Georgia owes Russia a determined foreign debt.

11. PLENARY SESSION OF THE PARLIAMENT WILL CONSIDER THE CASINO FATE
    (Daily News: October 5, 2000)

    The Finance-Budgetary Committee of the Parliament met today in order to discuss amendments to the legislation, suggesting closing casinos. The committee members proved to have different attitudes towards the question.

12. FINANCE MINISTER IN OPTIMISTIC TUNE ON THE EVE OF IMF MISSION’S VISIT
    (Daily News: October 4, 2000)

    The draft budget-2001 basically agrees with the IMF recommendations – this is how the Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli motivated his optimism at the government session today.

    On his turn, President Shevardnadze called for the whole economic and financial bloc of the government to conduct “a serious work” for the forthcoming visit of the Fund’s mission, as “the condition of our economics depends on it in many ways”.

13. FINANCE MINISTER HAS BECOME THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GEORGIAN STOCK-EXCHANGE ADVISERS COUNCIL
    (Daily News: October 3, 2000)

    The stock exchange advisers Council, which has met for the first time today, made the decision to elect the Finance Minster Zurab Nogaideli on this post. In his report, Nogaideli, stressing the importance of the stock market development in Georgia, said the Council would deal with general issues.

14. TECHNICAL INSPECTION OF VEHICLES, AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE WEEK
    (Weekly Press Digest: October 1, 2000)

    Last week was the seventh anniversary of Sukhumi fall and the visit of NATO Secretary General. However, besides significance of these events, we can put it boldly, that dominating publications were dedicated to, such a trivial at first sight, event, as the consideration of tariff reduction on technical inspection of vehicles, at the Parliament.

15. EXPENDITURES ON AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL CHECKING
    (Daily News: September 27, 2000)

    Today the Parliament approved the changes, envisaging the reduction of technical checking cost of automobile transportation. The sum of the compulsory insurance is half reduced and accordingly, a road tax is also cut down.

16. NATO SECRETARY GENERAL WILL VISIT GEORGIA TODAY
    (Daily News: September 25, 2000)

    Today, at the briefing, President of Georgia defined George Robertson’s first visit as a planned one. Also today, in his radio interview, Shevardnadze noted, that Robertson’s predecessor, Javier Solana, has already visited Georgia.

17. POLITICAL SHIFTS – DO THEY CHANGE A SUM?
    (Weekly Press Digest: September 24, 2000)

    The presentation of New Movement, created by the “rebellions” who left the ruling party, and New Fraction, confirms in a due time stated presumption on existence of serious discrepancy among the Parliament majority and its main force – Citizen’s Union. Dilis Gazeti thinks, that in comparison with the majority leaving the fraction Abkhazeti this is qualitatively more serious loss for the ruling party, though the newspaper notes out, that official implementation of “anti-Zhvania” trends will not change a real policy.

18. NEW-OLD BUDGET OR BUDGET REFORM IN GEORGIA
    (Weekly Economic Review: September 23, 2000)

    The government is due to consider the budget-2001 project at the closed session this Saturday. We do not know the results of the discussion yet, this is not so important at the moment though.

19. COURT MIGHT CONSIDER THE QUESTION OVER THE RIGHTS ON THE POTI PORT 7^TH TERMINAL LAND PLOTS
    (Daily News: September 22, 2000)

    The Poti port is going to file a suit against the company Sameba, as it thinks that the land plot of the 7^th container terminal does not belong to this firm, the source at the State Property Management Ministry told Sarke.

    However, according to the Sameba director Zurab Tkemaladze, 2.12 hectares of the land of this terminal was given to this company for the construction of the terminal of spirits, mineral- and well-waters.

20. GOVERNMENT’S REFUSAL TO SUPPORT BUDGET-2001 KEY PARAMETERS “SHOULD NOT BE OVERDONE”, THINKS HEALTH CARE MINISTER
    (Daily News: September 20, 2000)

    Commenting the government’s refusal to support the key parameters of the budget-2000 introduced by the Finance Ministry, the Minister of Labor, Health Care and Social Welfare Avtandil Jorbenadze said, “this question should not be overdone”. He thinks that some of the articles published in the press might “lead to the war with the Finance Ministry”.

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