Daily News March 16, 1998	Days:  12 13 16 17 18

politics

TODAY PRESIDENT SHEVARDNADZE CLAIMED HIS DECISION TO GO THE CIS SUMMIT IN MOSCOW

The question of participating of the Georgian President in the Moscow summit was discussed at the meeting of the National Security Counsel on March 14. The most of the Counsel members spoke against the President’s trip.




THE GEORGIAN PRESIDENT EMPHASIZED THE IMPORTANCE AND PRODUCTIVITY OF THE TURKISH PRIME MINISTER’S VISIT

During his today’s radio interview Eduard Shevardnadze mentioned, that the cooperation between two countries is developing in every sphere, and touched the economical aspects of the visit. In particular, President claimed, that is reached the final agreement about the tender declaration in April about building the railroad magisterial Kars-Akhalkalaki-Tbilisi-Baku.




ACCORDING TO EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE, THE ELECTION RESULT IN ARMENIA WILL NOT AFFECT THE NEIGHBORLY RELATIONS WITH GEORGIA

Commenting the President’s elections conducted today in Armenia, Eduard Shevardnadze refused to do any prognoses on their results, although he mentioned, that has his own opinion about them. He claimed, that the important thing is that the thousand-year friendship, that traditionally binds the Georgian and Armenian people, and is not broken.




VLADISLAV ARDZINBA DEMANDS FROM CIS TO CONSIDER THE ABKHAZIAN POSITION DURING MAKING THE DECISION ABOUT THE PEACEKEEPING FORCES

According to the information from Sukhumi, the President of the self-proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia sent the letter to the Chairman of the Counsel of the CIS Heads, to the Russian President Boris Yeltsin with the plea to consider the Abkhazian position during making the decision about the peacekeepers in the conflict zone. He highly evaluated Russia’s peacekeeping role and showed the hope, that the presence of the peacekeeping forces will play the stabilizing role in future, too.




THE ABKHAZIAN SEPARATIST REGIME HELD THE ELECTIONS INTO THE ORGANS OF THE LOCAL AUTONOMY

Against them spoke the Georgian population, and also hundreds of thousands refugees, the opinion of which was ignored. In the Gali regions, the elections were not held, because the separatist forces claimed, that they could not provide their normal conduction.




IN THE NEAREST FUTURE WILL BE CONDUCTED THE MEETING BETWEEN EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE AND VLADISLAV ARDZINBA

About this claimed on Saturday the Georgian State Minister Niko Lekishvili. He informed that he has held the negotiation on this cause during his trip to Sukhumi in February.

economics

THE GEORGIAN PRESIDENT EMPHASIZED ONCE MORE, THAT THE PROCESS OF THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE LARGE ENTERPRISES DOES NOT HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE AND IS NECESSARY FOR THE COUNTRY

Commenting the privatization process, President in his today’s radio interview emphasized, that showing up of the real owner is the main condition and the guaranty of the progress and this is proved by the world history. President demanded the more active actions and the objectiveness from each Department during the realization in the country of the 2^nd step of the radical economic reforms.




IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE MARCH BY THE TAX INSPECTION WERE MOBILIZED INTO THE BUDGET ALMOST 8M LARI, AND BY THE CUSTOM ORGANS – 6M LARI

In his today’s radio interview Eduard Shevardnadze mentioned, that by the initiative of the country’s Ministry of Finance from the tax dodgers they were able to get 2 million Lari from the overdue indebtedness. Together with this, according to him, should be activated the work on providing the accomplishing of the budget assignments not only for March, but also together for the whole quarter, which will allow to overcome any difficulties in giving out the pensions, salaries and allowances.

business

TODAY IN THE GEORGIAN CAPITAL STARTED TO WORK THE FIRST IN THE COUNTRY TURKISH BANK – THE FILIAL OF THE STATE BANK OF THE TURKISH REPUBLIC

The gala presentation of the bank Emlak, which was attended by the Georgian President, was conducted during the visit to Georgia of the Turkish Prime minister. We should mention that Eduard Shevardnadze was the first to open his account in this bank.

society

GEORGIAN PRESIDENT SUPPORTED THE DECISION ABOUT MOVING THE TRANSLATIONS OF THE PARLIAMENT SITTINGS FROM THE 1^ST CHANNEL OF THE NATIONAL TV TO THE 2^ND

Regarding the decision to move the direct translation of the Parliament sittings from the 1^st channel of the Georgian TV to the 2^nd, Eduard Shevardnadze claimed, that this in no way violates the freedom of speech. Referring to the world experience, he claimed that the many hour translations of the Parliament sittings by the main TV channel of the country could not be accepted rational.




TO THE POPULATION OF THE HIGH MOUNTAINOUS REGION OF AJARA THAT CAME TO HARM AS A RESULT OF THE ELEMENT IS BEING PROVIDED THE HELP

As claimed Eduard Shevardnadze during his today’s radio interview, the country will provide its help to the came to harm population. According to the President’s order for every family will be picked out the financial help of the size $3,000-5,000.