Daily News March 20, 1998	Days:  18 19 20 23 24

politics

THREE PEACEFUL INHABITANTS IN THE ZUGDIDI REGION WERE WOUNDED AS A RESULT OF THE PELT ACROSS ENGURI

Today at 8:10 a.m. in the village Napatushi of the Zugdidi region on the inhabitants, gathered at the passage across Enguri, from the side of the village Tagiloni of the Gali region were pelted from the machine and grenade guns. Three people were heavily wounded – two local inhabitants and one refugee from Abkhazia.




THE GEORGIAN SIDE SUMMONS THE UN OBSERVERS TO EVALUATE THE ACTIVITIES OF THE RUSSIAN PEACEKEEPERS

The Parliament’s Deputy Chairman Vakhtang Kolbaia and the Chairman of the Committee on protecting the human rights and the national minorities Konstantin Kokoyev met yesterday with the UN Chief military observer Kharun Ar-Rashid. It was mentioned that the situation in Abkhazia continues to remain complicated and to its normalization does not contribute the presence of the Russian peacekeepers in the region.




GURAM ABSANDZE WAS TRANSFERRED TO TBILISI, AND NEMO BURCHULADZE WAS FREED

Yesterday evening in Tbilisi by the special flight was delivered from Moscow Guram Absandze, the former Minister of Finance in Zviad Gamsakhurdia’s government. The Russian law machinery arrested him on March 17 in Smolensk.




THE AUTHORITY TERM OF THE TURKISH AMBASSADOR HAS FINISHED

Yesterday Georgian President accepted the Turkish Ambassador Tevfik Okiyauz, which has finished the term of his authorities. Eduard Shevardnadze claimed that the effective activities of the Turkish Embassy very much supported to the dynamic development of the relations between the two countries in the past time.

economics

IN THE FIRST DECADE OF MARCH BY THE ENTERPRISES, INCLUDED IN THE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WAS MANUFACTURED THE PRODUCTION ON 1.3M LARI

According to the operative showings of the Ministry of Industry, during this period in the chemical mining, pharmaceutics and metallurgical mining industry was manufactured the production on 700,000 Lari, and in the engineering – on 250,000 Lari, in the light industry – on 200,000 Lari. From February 15 functions the Zestaponi’s corporation Ferro.




THE QUESTION OF PAYING THE COST OF THE USED POWER HAS NOT BEEN SOLVED YET

According to the information from Sakenergo, the debitorial indebtedness makes 218 million Lari. During the 2 months of the current year in the country, excluding Abkhazia and Samachablo, was used 891.2 million kWh of power on the amount of 29.1million Lari.

business

THE SOUTH KOREAN FIRMS SHOW THEIR INTEREST IN FINANCING THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TELECOMMUNICATION LINES IN GEORGIA

For the reconstruction, modernizing and development on the international level of the communication means in Georgia according to the preliminary expert evaluations it is necessary more than $1 billion. On the strength of the today’s economical situation, for the Georgian government and the Ministry of Post and Communications is impossible to pick out this amount.