Daily News February 19, 1998	Days:  17 18 19 20 25

politics

20 TERRORISTS TOOK 3 UN REPRESENTATIVES AS HOSTAGES

Today during the press conference the Minister of the Interior Affairs Kakha Targamadze claimed, that at 10 a.m. in the village Jikhaskari of the Zugdidi region terrorist captured the Jeep, in which were the UN representatives. Presently terrorists and hostages are in the building, which is situated in the surrounded by the staff of the Ministry of Interior Affairs spot.




THE FOLLOWERS OF THE GEORGIAN EX-PRESIDENT ZVIAD GAMSAKHURDIA CATEGORICALLY DENY THEIR CONNECTION TO THE ATTEMPT ON THE LIFE OF EDUARD SHEVARDNADZE

According to Gamsakhurdia's widow, who heads the political block Round Table, the terrorist act was inspired. According to Manana Archvadze-Gamsakhurdia, the Round Table is going to come to power only by the peaceful way.




THE HEAD OF THE GUARD OF THE FORMER SECURITY MINISTER OF GEORGIA IGOR GIORGADZE CLAIMED ABOUT THE INNOCENCE OF HIS BOSS

On the conducted in Tbilisi court process on presently freed armed forming Mkhedrioni, who is accused in the organization of the attempt on the life of the Georgian President in 1995, the former head of the guard of the state security Minister Igor Giorgadze Guram Papukashvili testified. He categorically denied all accusations and denied the beforehand testifications, in which he confessed committing the crime.




THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT OFFERS TO RESIST FROM STATING THE QUESTION ABOUT THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE SECURITY ORGANS FOR THE TERRORIST ACT

The Chairman of the Parliament subcommittee on the penitentiary questions Elene Tevdoradze informed the journalists, that she still is going to state the question about the responsibilities of the security organs for the attempt on the life of the Georgian President. However, because on the meeting of the Parliament fraction Citizen Union was made a decision to include this question into the agenda only after completing the investigation, Tevdoradze will make this according to the present decision.




FROM THE TWO PARLIAMENT SUBCOMMITTEES WAS ESTABLISHED ONE SUBCOMMITTEE OF EMIGRATION

On February 11 according to the decision of the bureau of the Georgian Parliament the subcommittees on the migration affairs and of the living abroad co-citizens and the emigration affairs and of the living abroad co-citizens combined into one subcommittee of emigration. The decision of the bureau was approved on the plenary meeting.

economics

PARLIAMENT MADE A DECISION ABOUT MAKING THE CHANGES IN THE CUSTOM CODE

According to this decision the custom gatherings, transferred into the state budget, partially will be directed on the final financing of the material-technical providing of the custom organs staff.




THE QUESTION ABOUT SUPPLYING THE MEDICAMENTS IN GEORGIA AS A HUMAN AID IS BEING DISCUSSED

As claims the returned from his visit to Europe the leader of the fraction Laborites Shalva Natelashvili, the Eurocommission and Europarliament will speak with the recommendations in front of the Organization of the Red Cross and Red Crescent about extension of the similar supplies to Georgia.




THE NEW PRACTICING OF THE POWER SUPPLY FOR POPULATION IS BEING IMPLANTED

As was stated during the meeting between the representatives of the state company Sakenergo and Socialist Party, Sakenergo demands the beforehand paying by the population for the received power. This is connected to the fact, thataccording the information of Sakenergo the water level in the reservoirs of the water power stations, and foremost in EngurHES, is catastrophically low.

society

THE EDITOR OF THE NEWSPAPER SAKARTVELO COMES OUT OF PARTY, ORGAN OF WHICH IS THE NEWSPAPER

As became known from the reliable sources, the Editor of the issued in Tbilisi newspaper Sakartvelo Nodar Gigelashvili informed the national committee of the United Republican Party, the organ of which is the newspaper, that he, as a protest, refuses the membership in this party, and also retires from the editor's post. It is noticeable, that the whole staff of the newspaper as a sign of solidarity to the Editor took of the work responsibilities.