Daily News August 9, 2000	Days:  07 08 09 10 11

economics

ORDER IN BUDGET SPHERE IS PREVAILING

The State Minister Giorgi Arsenishvili and permanent representative of IMF in Georgia Christopher Lein concluded this at the meeting, held on August 8. They were discussing the implementation of memorandum, signed during the visit of Fund mission in June, on which depends the resumption of financial aid of Georgia.




PRESIDENT CONDUCTED FIRST MEETING WITH HIS STRATEGIC ADVISOR ON OIL AND GAS

At this meeting on August 8, they were considering projects on Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan oil pipeline and Transcaucasus gas main (through which a natural gas from Azerbaijan via Georgia will be transferred to Turkey) construction. Edward Chow told Eduard Shevardnadze, he thinks it practical to integrate indicated projects in a course of time.




SAIRME RESORT IS BEING REVIVED

In particular, by the next season they plan to complete the constructions of unfinished boarding house, to build cottages and accomplish the territory, which will be connected with sanitary zones with elevators. The reconstruction of road has already been finished.

society

LAW ENFORCEMENT BODIES DO NOT CONFIRM RUMOURS ABOUT LIBERATION OF KIDNAPPED EMPLOYEES OF RED CROSS IN PANKISI CANYON

Rumours, that 3 employees of Tbilisi mission of International Red Cross Committee, kidnapped on August 5, are liberated and residing at the moment in one of the high mountainous villages of canyon, have been spread among the local population this morning. However, the representatives of law enforcement bodies declared, at present they are checking this information and they do not know any confirmatory facts yet.