Daily News August 19, 1999	Days:  17 18 19 20 23

politics

RUSSIA ACKNOWLEDGED THAT ON AUGUST 9 THE MINES ON THE GEORGIAN TERRITORY WERE DROPPED BY MISTAKE

This is the information delivered by the Foreign Ministry of RF. The Russian side expressed its regret on this case, apologized and declared about its readiness to recompense the inflicted losses.




THE MEETING OF THE PRESIDENTS OF THE 3 COUNTRIES SCHEDULED FOR FALL MIGHT BE HELD IN TBILISI

We’ll remind to you that in Washington D.C. in April at the 50^th anniversary of NATO the presidents of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Armenia agreed to create a Caucasian forum and planned their future meeting. The date of the meeting as well as the topics for the discussion will be defined by the presidents of the 3 countries.




SOME OF THESE DAYS 2 GEORGIAN CITIZENS ARE TO BE RELEASED

The official authorities of Chechen Republic took the responsibility on them. According to inaccurate data, some 50 more Georgian citizens are held as hostages and almost all of them were kidnapped from the territory of RF.




THE GENERAL PROSECUTOR’S OFFICE OF GEORGIA RULED THE ACTION, BROUGHT AGAINST THE PRESIDENT’S REPRESENTATIVE IN IMERETI REGION, WRONGFUL

This is the information delivered by the Prosecutor General of Georgia Jamlet Babilashvili during his press conference held in Kutaisi. Last year President’s representative in Imereti region Teimuraz Shashiashvili filed an application on the name of Babilashvili, demanding to reconsider the facts on the suit filed against him by Ajara.

economics

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE COUNTRY CONSIDERED THE DRAFT BILL ON THE LAND CADASTRE AND INFORMATIONAL SYSTEM OF THE LAND

Today the draft bill was considered on the regular session of the Georgian government chaired by the President of the country Eduard Shevardnadze, who has just returned from his vacation.

Introducing the document, the chairman of the State Department on the land Management Zurab Gegechkori noted that the draft has been prepared with the recommendation of the European economic commission, UN as well as existing experience in the management of the land recourses.




BUDGET LOSING MILLIONS OF LARI DUE TO ILLEGAL AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORTATION

As we found out from Revaz Tevdoradze, Deputy Chairman of Auto-Transport Department of Georgia, the yield from state-controlled automobile transportaton is three times as low as it should actually be. In 1998 budget intakes from auto-transport made up 16.5 million Lari, while, in the experts’ opinion, the sum should have been as big as 40 million.




IN SEPTEMBER THE BANKNOTES OF HIGHER QUALITY WILL BE PUT INTO CIRCULATION

This is the information delivered to Sarke correspondent by the head of the NB office on cash payments and cash circulation. He stressed that this will be not an emission but a step-by-step process of replacing old banknotes with new ones.




THE QUESTION ON RECONSIDERING THE CALCULATING SYSTEM OF THE MINIMUM COST OF LEAVING AND DEFINING OF THE CONSUMER BASKET ARE IN THE AGENDA

This is the information delivered by the Chairman of the State Statistics Department Teimuraz Beridze, who under the order of the president presented the project on determination of the minimum cost of leaving. He noted that the existing system of calculating the minimal cost of leaving was put into force in 1995.