Daily News August 22, 2000	Days:  18 21 22 23 24

politics

ON AUGUST 25, GOVERNMENTAL DELEGATION OF GEORGIA WILL LEAVE FOR TURKMENISTAN ON A WORKING VISIT

The Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli is in the composition of the governmental delegation, headed by the State Minister Giorgi Arsenishvili. In Turkmenistan, the Georgian delegation will hold the negotiations on restructuring of the indebtedness of $350 million for the Turkmenistan gas delivered to Georgia.

economics

JAPAN FACILITATES TO THE CREATION OF THE COMPUTER NETWORK IN WHOLE GEORGIA

The Chairman of the Japanese-Georgian association Koji Osava has got acquainted with the results of the works of the group created on his own initiative, for the creation of such computer network. The total cost of the project amounts to $60 million.




FIRST STAGE OF QUALIFYING EXAMS IN THE TAX SYSTEM HAS ENDED

As the Minister of Tax Revenues Mikheil Machavariani declared at the press conference today, 357 tax inspectors of the capital successfully going through the qualifying exams (204 out of whom have already had experience of working in the system) have set to the implementation of their duties. Qualifying exams for filling the vacancies in the district tax inspections of Tbilisi was held in two stages.

business

SIEMENS GOING TO START THE OPTICO-FIBRE CABLE LAYING IN GEORGIA IN THE MID SEPTEMBER

This is the announcement made at the LLC Sakartvelos Rkinigza (Georgian Railway). We will remind to you that Siemens has become the winner of the tender, announced by EU.




THOSE HOLDING LICENSES IN THE SPHERE OF COMMUNICATIONS WILL BE RE-REGISTERED

The representative of the National Regulative Commission on telecommunications Vakhtang Abashidze has made this announcement. According to him, the Commission will hold re-registration after confirming the charter and regulations for it, which are to be presented to the President of the country till September 1.




GEORGIAN BUSINESSMAN DEMANDS COMPENSATION OF A MORAL DAMAGE FROM THE FRENCH SIDE

The former director general of the Georgian-French enterprise on beer production Kazbegi-Castel Gogi Topadze (he left this post, as he is the deputy of the Georgian Parliament at the moment) filed a suit against French partners in theTbilisi district court. Topadze demands the payment of $500,000 for the moral damage inflicted to him by the French side publicly “blaming” him.

society

AJARA AND IMERETI NOT GOING TO POSTPONE THE BEGINNING OF ACADEMIC YEAR

As the Chairman of the Supreme Council of Ajara Autonomy Aslan Abashidze declared on August 21, nobody has right to postpone the beginning of the academic year in the whole country. We will remind to you that the Minister of Education Alexander Kartozia declared on August 16 that the beginning of the academic year would be postponed to September 18.