Daily News September 9, 1999	Days:  07 08 09 10 13

politics

SHEVARDNADZE WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE IN YALTA

The President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze is leaving for Yalta on September 10. He will participate in the international conference on the topic “The Co-Operation Of The Black Sea And Baltic Basin Countries: 21^st Century Without Borders With Europe”.




VALERI CHKHEIDZE NOT PARTICIPATING IN THE MEETING OF COMMANDER-IN CHIEFS OF CIS COUNTRIES’ FRONTIER TROOPS

The head of the Department on the Border Protection of Georgia Valeri Chkheidze explained his decision not to participate in the meeting, which opened in Bishkek (Kirgistan) today, by the disagreement on a number of important question with his counterparts of the CIS countries.

As Chkheidze declared at the press conference on September 8, in the first place the division of the state borders into exterior and interior ones is unacceptable to Georgia.

economics

EBRD GOING TO SPECIFY THE FOREGROUND DIRECTIONS FOR CREDIT ALLOCATIONS

The director of the Caucasian region of EBRD Linds Forbes and the bank’s permanent representative in Georgia Jurgen Schramm met the State Minister Vazha Lortkipanidze on September 8. They requested the Georgian side to introduce proposals on the foreground spheres for the allocation of their credits.




GEORGIA AND AZERBAIJAN SUPPORTING THE PROJECT OF THE BAKU-JEIKHAN OIL PIPE-LINE CONSTRUCTION

As it has been informed at the Georgian International Oil Corporation, this announcement has been made at the next round of the negotiations of the working groups on the main export pipe-line project, through which the Caspian big oil will be transported to the world market. During the negotiations the Georgian side has been headed by the president of the corporation Giorgi Chanturia, as for Azerbaijanian side – by the vice president of The State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic Valekh Alikserov.

business

THE FIRST LOT OF PIPES MADE BY THE RUSTAVI METALLURGISTS SEND OUT TO AZERBAIJAN

Rustavi metallurgic plant has sent 400 tons of pipes to Azerbaijan. According to the placed order it is envisaged to export 40,000 tons of pipes, 15,000 tons during one year.




REORGANIZATION OF GEORGIAN STATE TELEVISION CONTINUING

The President of Georgia Eduard Shevardnadze met the head of the representation of the company Siemens in Georgia Carsten Ellrich. He introduced the President with the course of the work on the modernization of the State corporation on television and broadcasting, that has already been carried out by the company for several months.

society

GEORGIAN MARINERS CAPTIVATED BY ABKHAZ SEPARATISTS RELEASED

The crew members of the Georgian seiner Alioni were captivated at the beginning of April. The separatists claim that they were fishing in the “territorial waters of Abkhazia”.




RUSSIAN SPEAKING POPULATION OF ABKHAZIA COMPLAINS ABOUT THE NATIONAL DISCRIMINATION

The chairman of the Parliamentary subcommittee on the prisoners’ rights protection and the penitentiary reform Elene Tevdoradze got the letter signed by the large group of the Russian speaking population of Abkhazia. As they put it, the rights of non Abkhazian population are not protected, they have been forcefully dispossessed from their houses, fired from the jobs and so on.




THE NGO AND MASS MEDIA CONGRESS OPENED IN TBILISI

The representatives of public organizations, state and independent periodicals, mass media communications are participating in a congress, opened today. The participants are going to discuss the ways of their co-operation in the course of the democratic institutions’ establishment.