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1. ITALIAN BUSINESSMEN INTERESTED IN AGRICULTURE, FOOD INDUSTRY AND TOURISM
   (Daily News: October 4, 2005)

   Italy’ Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade and Productive Activities, Adolfo Urso has said at an opening ceremony of the second business forum of Italy and Georgia today, Italian businessmen are interested in Georgia’s agriculture, food industry, timber processing and tourism sectors.

   Giorgi Isakadze, the executive director of the Federation of Businessmen, says Georgian businessmen will host Italian businessmen interested in setting up joint enterprises as part of the Italian and Georgian Economic Partnership Program.

2. GEORGIA HOPES FOR KAZAKH GAS SUPPLIES AND OIL TRANSIT
   (Daily News: September 30, 2005)

   The Georgian and Kazakh parties have agreed to close by November 1 a 10-year deal on the gas supplies from Kazakhstan to Georgia, 2 billion cubic meters a year, states the protocol of the first meeting of the intergovernmental commission of Georgia and Kazakhstan on trade and economic cooperation. The protocol was signed in Tbilisi today by Kazakhstan’s Transport and Communications Minister Askar Mamin and Georgia’s Economic Development Minister Irakli Chogovadze.

3. Khvalindeli Dge: “URBAN TRANSPORT WILL RISE IN PRICE CONSIDERABLY”
   (Economic Press Monitor: September 30, 2005)

   The maintaining of the municipal buses is quite expensive for the city government so the privatization of the entities can be put into agenda, Zurab Chikviladze, the head of Tbilisi transport service, says.

   The carriage of one passenger costs city 0.38 lari, the Municipality declares, while passenger fee is only 0.20 lari now.

4. ECONOMIC COOPERATION BETWEEN GEORGIA AND ARMENIA BEING CONSIDERED IN YEREVAN
   (Daily News: September 29, 2005)

   Yerevan is hosting today a meeting of an intergovernmental commission on economic cooperation of Georgia and Armenia. Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli is taking part in the meeting.

5. TELIASONERA TO INVEST $160M IN GEORGIA OVER 5 YEARS
   (Daily News: September 28, 2005)

   Anders Igel, the president of TeliaSonera and Erdal Durukan, head of Fintur Holding (joint enterprise TeliaSonera and Turkcell), who have arrived in Georgia in the composition of the delegation from Finland, have met with Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli today. As Igel said after the meeting, $160 million would be invested in Georgia over 5 years.

6. GOVERNMENT DEFINES BUDGET-2006 PARAMETERS AND RESPONDS OPPOSITION CRITICISM ON BUDGET-2005
   (Daily News: September 23, 2005)

   The government has considered today parameters of state budget-2006, which will be introduced to Parliament on September 30. The final draft will be ready by November.

7. AGREEMENT ON AVOIDING DOUBLE TAXATION OF REVENUES AND CAPITAL BETWEEN GEORGIA AND AUSTRIA PRESENTED TO PARLIAMENT
   (Daily News: September 22, 2005)

   Next week Parliament will consider the agreement on avoiding double taxation of revenues and capital between Georgia and the Republic of Austria. The text of the agreement was initialed in June 2004, while it was signed in April 2005.

8. Rezonansi: “14,000 DRIVERS DELIVER AN ULTIMATUM TO GOVERNMENT”
   (Economic Press Monitor: September 20, 2005)

   The drivers of minibuses made a protest action in Tbilisi yesterday. They demanded the renewal of minibuses movement at Liberty Square, Rustaveli and Chavchavadze avenues.

9. NUMBER OF WINERIES TO GROW TO 150
   (Daily News: September 19, 2005)

   Twenty new wineries are being constructed in various regions of the country at the moment, Agriculture Minister Mikheil Svimonishvili has said at a meeting with representatives of the sector held together with Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli today. The number of operating wineries is 130.

10. ALL FOUR LEADING AUDIT COMPANIES HAVE OFFICES IN GEORGIA
    (Daily News: September 19, 2005)

    PricewaterhouseCoopers, which has recently opened an office in Tbilisi, has become the fourth leading international audit company represented in Georgia.

    Zurab Kharatishvili, the executive director of the Association of Bookkeepers and Auditors, has told Sarke, in 2000 KPMG and Deloitte Touche opened offices in Tbilisi actually simultaneously.

11. 24 Saati: “GEORGIA TO BECOME REFORMER NUMBER TWO”
    (Economic Press Monitor: September 19, 2005)

    According to the World Bank research, in terms of reforms’ volume Georgia occupied the second place in the world last year. However, the same research gives Georgia only the 100^th place in terms of business security.

12. Rezonansi: “GROWTH OF DECREASING INVESTMENTS”
    (Economic Press Monitor: September 16, 2005)

    The government calls the current investment process successful. According to data of Economic Development Ministry’s investment department, the investments in Georgia are at least doubled compared with the previous year.

13. PARLIAMENT CONSIDERS DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO THE BUDGET-2005
    (Daily News: September 16, 2005)

    Amendments to the budget-2005, Parliament has considered today, call for increasing the budget-2005 by 26 million lari. Opposition MPs, as well as the Financial and Budgetary Committee and Chamber of Commerce have expressed a number of remarks.

14. GEORGIA HOPES TO RECEIVE $600M FROM INTERNATIONAL FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
    (Daily News: September 14, 2005)

    Apart from $295.3 million, the US has disbursed to Georgia under the Millennium Challenge program the Georgian government hopes to receive up to $600 million in loan from international financial institutions.

    Both Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli and Finance Minister Aleksi Aleksishvili told journalists about talks being held on additional funding with the institutions in the State Office today.

15. TURKEY PLANS TO SIGNIFICANTLY INCREASE INVESTMENT AND TRADE TURNOVER WITH GEORGIA
    (Daily News: September 13, 2005)

    Questions of cooperation between Georgia and Turkey have been considered today in Tbilisi as part of a 2-day visit of the 160-member Turkish delegation led by State Minister Kursad Tuzmen. The latter expressed hope that “in three years the trade turnover (between the countries) will reach $2 billion”.

16. SYNDROME OF FEAR
    (Weekly Press Digest: September 11, 2005)

    Two years after the rose revolution the public became seriously concerned about the level of democracy in the country, measured by freedom of speech. The relationships between the media and the government have been the focus of the public attention since last week.

17. RAILWAY STATIONS GRADUALLY RESTORED
    (Daily News: September 8, 2005)

    At an out meeting today, the Transport Policy Development Commission has considered questions concerning the restoration of railway stations, road repairs, funding the railway, changes to the railway code and so on.

    Both state officials – Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli, State Minister Kakha Bendukidze, Economic Development Minister Irakli Chogovadze, David Onoprishvili, the director general of LLC Georgian Railway - and journalists learned about the situation in the railway in the train heading from Gardabani to Makhinjauri.

18. GEORGIA ENJOYING GPS+ BENEFITS WITH OFFICIAL APPEAL YET TO MAKE
    (Daily News: September 6, 2005)

    In late September, Georgia will have ready an officially application to join in the additional scheme of generalized preferential system (GPS+) as a beneficiary, Prime Minister Zurab Nogaideli has told journalists today. In early October, the document will be introduced to the EU leadership.

19. STAFF TRAINING AND MANAGEMENT CENTER OPENS IN THE CHAMBER OF CONTROL
    (Daily News: September 5, 2005)

    The Chamber of Control has hosted today the presentation of the staff training and management center, modern permits’ bureau and citizens’ waiting room. The center opened as part of the joint project of the UN Development Program and the Chamber of Control “Improving Efficiency of State Control”.

20. JOURNALISTS, MPS AND BALLET DANCERS
    (Weekly Press Digest: September 4, 2005)

    Two absolutely different events have taken place this week – a prominent TV showman Shalva Ramishvili has been arrested and the Tbilisi Mayor decided to transfer the Youth Palace to Nino Ananiashvili’s ballet school. However, one more event, which might seem not as striking at first sight as the previous two, linked these occurrings in the press into some kind of a logical chain of events.

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