Daily News August 18, 2000	Days:  16 17 18 21 22

politics

CIS INFORMAL SUMMIT HAS SET TO WORK IN YALTA

The first day was dedicated to the bilateral meetings. The press secretary of the President Kakha Imnadze said on the eve that during the Eduard Shevardnadze and Vladimir Putin would focus on the building of proper bilateral relations.




IRAKLI MENAGARISHVILI WILL VISIT ESTONIA ON AUGUST 21-22

The Foreign Minister of Georgia will leave for his first official visit to Tallinn from Yalta, where he accompanies the President Shevardnadze. He will meet the President of Estonia Lenart Meri, Premier Mart Laars and his counterpart Tommas Hendrick Ilves.




THIRD MEETING OF GUUAM STATE COORDINATORS GOING TO BE HELD IN TBILISI ON AUGUST 24

According to the Foreign Ministry of Georgia, the participants will consider the key priorities of the cooperation. The Deputy Foreign Minister Merab Antadze presents the coordinator from the Georgian side.

business

TKIBULI POWER INT., LTD. WILL CONSTRUCT THE HEAT POWER STATION IN TKIBULI

The Slovak SEF Energy and the US Access International, Inc. are the founders of the company.




FATE OF STATE AIR COMPANY IS TO BE SOLVED SOON

As it is known, it was decided in November 1999 to unite 3 air companies – the state Sakartvelos Aviakhazebi (Georgian Airlines) and private Air Georgia and AirZena. However, as the well informed source at the State Office told Sarke, actually only the private air companies united into the air company AirZena – Sakartvelos Aviakhazebi.




CHAIRMAN OF SAGA PRINT GROUP SUPERVISORY COUNCIL WILL ARRIVE IN GEORGIA ON AUGUST 23

Michael Khalko will have hear serious claims of the Georgia side over the situation created in the JSC Chiaturmarganets, the investor of which is the Czech company Saga Print. Namely, the problem is non-payment of salaries to Chiaturmarganets workers.

society

CONTRACT WITH THE RUSTAVI METALLURGIC PLANT INVESTOR GOING TO BE CANCELED

We will remind to you that in January 1998, 51% of shares of the JSC Rustavi Metallurgic Plant was transferred to the Georgian-Russian-Israeli LLC MetallurgOilGazInvest for the management for 10 year. However, as the DeputyState Property Management Minister David Gelashvili told Sarke, the investor has not been implementing the liabilities shouldered by it.