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1. AUTHORITIES GOING TO CREATE A SPECIAL FUND TO FIGHT CORRUPTION IN STATE STRUCTURES
   (Daily News: January 14, 2004)

   The Parliament of 1999 passed the bill on the Development and Reform Fund in all three readings at an irregular session today. The document had been introduced by Justice Minister Zurab Adeishvili.

2. CUSTOMS DEPARTMENT FAILS TO MEET DECEMBER PLAN BUT WITHOUT MAKING PREPAYMENTS
   (Daily News: January 13, 2004)

   According to the press service of the Customs Department, in December 33.9 million lari was transferred to the consolidated budget, or 81.3% of the plan - 41.6 million. However, the department notes that this time there were not prepayments made.

3. POWER ENGINEERS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO DEAL WITH ELECTRICITY SHORTAGE
   (Daily News: January 13, 2004)

   Representative of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, energy distribution companies and USAID met today at State Minister Zurab Zhvania’s office to consider energy problems.

   Due to electricity shortage the electricity supplies are cut to districts of the capital for two-three hours a day; regions have electricity only for several hours.

4. 3M OF US AID TO COVER WAGE ARREARS OF THE GEORGIAN MILITARY
   (Daily News: January 13, 2004)

   The US has disbursed $3 million for wages of the Georgian servicemen that participated in the Georgian-American Train and Equip program. The funds have been disbursed from the US aid of $21 million to Georgia.

5. NEW HEAD OF RAILWAY TO BE NAMED THIS WEEK
   (Daily News: January 12, 2004)

   The supervisory board of LLC Georgian Railway will meet on January 15 to decide on the candidature of director general.

   According to the press service of the LLC, director general will become one of the two candidates - Tengiz Donadze and Ramaz Giorgadze, deputies of Akaki Chkhaidze, who held the post until November developments.

6. RAILWAY STILL WITHOUT MANAGEMENT
   (Daily News: January 9, 2004)

   Gia Lezhava, elected by the supervisory board of LLC Georgian Railway on December 28, 2003, has refused to take the post. He says conflict of interests, warning against which has been voiced by State Minister Zurab Zhvania, can appear due to his business activities.

7. MADNEULI DIRECTOR GENERAL STILL ON THE POST
   (Daily News: January 9, 2004)

   Despite insistence of the State Property Management Agency that Zurab Lobzhanidze, director general of JSC Madneuli, should resign, the supervisory board of these ore mining and processing enterprise has again delayed the decision on the question.

   The board today met for the third time in Madneuli’s Tbilisi office.

8. BP ANNOUNCES $1 MILLION CONTRIBUTION TO GEORGIA FOR WINTER ENERGY NEEDS
   (Daily News: January 9, 2004)

   On behalf of its partners in the BTC (Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan) and SCP (South Caucasus Pipeline) Projects, BP announced that it is has allocated the sum of US$1 million for the immediate assistance of the new government of Georgia in managing critical energy supplies for its people this winter.

   According to BP’ office in Tbilisi, BP's Group Vice-President, Richard Paniguian who was visiting Tbilisi today, announced the decision after a meeting with President Elect Mikheil Saakashvili.

9. EU ASSURES GEORGIA’S NEW GOVERNMENT OF SUPPORT
   (Daily News: January 9, 2004)

   The EU considers that the January 4 presidential election has opened up new opportunities for Georgia and it looks forward to helping the country to come closer to the European family.

   According to the representation of the European Commission in Georgia, Romano Podi, the President of the European Commission, sent a letter of congratulation to president-elect Mikheil Saakashvili, in which EU’s commitment to assisting Georgia in reforms in stated.

10. CEC HEAD SPEAKS ABOUT COMING PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
    (Daily News: January 8, 2004)

    Zurab Chiaberashvili, the chairman of the Central Election Commission (CEC), says the election day (the January 4 Presidential elections) was peaceful and was held in a normal atmosphere. Election administrators at all levels, acted in accordance with the terms established by the Georgian Constitution and the Unified Election Code and the election was marked by active participation of voters.

11. FAIR ELECTIONS DID NOT REVEAL SERIOUS PROBLEMS AT PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION
    (Daily News: January 6, 2004)

    According to NGO Fair Elections', the facts of abridgment of voters' rights were not observed during presidential elections on January 4, 2004. Due to the new rule of voters' preliminary registration there were no problems related to fraudulent lists, so traditional for Georgian previous electoral experience, said NGO.

12. FUTURE PRESIDENT SPEAKS ABOUT NECESSITY OF CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDS
    (Daily News: January 5, 2004)

    The press-conference of Mikhail Saakashvili, presidential candidate and the head of National Movement, held on extraordinary presidential elections day of January 4, an hour later after electoral pools’ closing, has become the demonstration of victory assurance.

    Saakashvili emphasized, that he realized the burden of responsibility well and he would do his best in order to justify hopes of the voters.

13. PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS ARE SUMMED
    (Daily News: January 5, 2004)

    The extraordinary presidential elections, held on January 4 of the current year, are accepted as been held. By preliminary data of Central Electoral Commission, in elections has participated above 1.7 million citizens from the total number of registered voters, making up over 2.1 million.

14. HOW TO KILL DRAGON WITHOUT TURNING INTO IT
    (Weekly Press Digest: December 28, 2003)

    There has been much fuss about detention of top officials of the former government recently. 24 Saati says post revolution days have proved dramatic for former office-holders and the clannish elite.

15. KFW FUNDS REDISTRIBUTED BUT LOANS NOT RATIFIED YET
    (Daily News: December 26, 2003)

    KfW, the German bank of reconstruction and development, allocated 32 million EUR for the overhaul of VartsikheHES as early as 1998, but the loan has not been used yet due to a number of reasons.

    Now, after the redistribution of funds, 8.5 million EUR has been allotted for the partial repair of a cascade of VartsikheHES, located in west Georgia.

16. PARLIAMENT APPROVES NEW JUSTICE MINISTER
    (Daily News: December 26, 2003)

    Zurab Adeishvili, a National Movement MP, was confirmed on the post of Justice Minister without a dissenting vote during an extraordinary session of the Parliament today. The minister’s post has been vacant since the summer when Roland Giligashvili, the former minister resigned.

17. NEW AUTHORITIES PROMISE TO SUPPORT SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS
    (Daily News: December 26, 2003)

    Today State Minister Zurab Zhvania and presidential candidate Mikhail Saakashvili, the head of the National Movement, met with representatives of small and medium business and assured them of their support.

    Saakashvili said: “The period of oligarchs has finished and it is time to create a middle class”, for which development of small and medium business is essential.

18. STATE MINISTER STATES RELEVANCE OF DETAINING CORRUPT OFFICIALS
    (Daily News: December 25, 2003)

    State Minister Zurab Zhvania says western donors demand that corrupt office-holders be punished. He said he had left the post of Parliament speaker in protest at the former government that did not punish offenders, while commenting on the detention of former fuel and energy minister and current head of the National Energy Regulation Commission David Mirtskhulava in a live program of the TV company Mze.

19. GOVERNMENT TO PAY DECEMBER PENSIONS THANKS TO US ASSISTANCE
    (Daily News: December 24, 2003)

    US ambassador Richard Miles, Georgian State Minister Zurab Zhvania and Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli singed today an agreement, under which Georgia’s government will be able to use $5 million for paying December pension arrears.

    Reportedly, the sum has been derived from the monetization of the US humanitarian wheat, allotted by the US government in September 2003, upon the request of the Minister of Agriculture and Food of Georgia David Kirvalidze.

20. ACTING PRESIDENT PLEASED WITH ELECTION PREPARATION PROCESS
    (Daily News: December 23, 2003)

    The acting president of Georgia Nino Burjanadze has been acquainted with the work of the Central Election Commission towards the January 4 presidential elections today. She said the fact that 1.3 million voters had already undergone preliminary registration provided grounds for holding elections at an appropriate level.

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