Daily News April 27, 1998	Days:  23 24 27 28 30

politics

THE FATE OF THE DEFENSE MINISTER WILL BE DECIDED AT THE TODAY’S COUNSEL OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY

About this stated Eduard Shevardnadze in his today’s radio interview. Such decision was made after providing by the Defense Ministry of the elementary conditions of the President’s security.




PRESIDENTS OF AZERBAIJAN, GEORGIA AND TURKEY CONFIRMED THEIR PURSUIT TO EXPAND THE SPECIAL RELATIONS BETWEEN THEIR COUNTRIES

Yesterday in Trabzon were held the negotiations between three Presidents, about the cooperation perspectives in the spheres of economy, politics and culture. There was made a mutual statement, in which Heidar Aliyev, Eduard Shevardnadze and Suleiman Demirell claimed their readiness in future also to expand the deepen the special relations between their countries, that becomes more and more ponderable factor in the region.




GEORGIAN PRESIDENT PARTICIPATED IN FOUNDING OF TURKISH POWER STATION, AGAINST WHICH SPEAK THE GEORGIAN ECOLOGISTS

Yesterday evening President Shevardnadze returned from Turkey, where together with the Turkish and Azerbaijanian Presidents participated in the gala opening of the power station building on the river Chorokhi. The height of the dam exceeds 200 m and the cost of the project makes $711 million.




ONCE MORE PRESIDENT EMPHASIZED THE NECESSITY AND SUBSERVIENCE OF HIS PARTICIPATION IN THE CIS SUMMIT IN MOSCOW

As stated Eduard Shevardnadze in the radio interview, the question of participation in summit will be discussed at the today’s sitting of the National Security Counsel. The positive decision is possible only in that case, if the security of the President and accompanying his faces is guaranteed not only in Georgia, but also in Russia.




RUSSIA IS CONCERNED ABOUT THE ONCOMING TOMORROW ACTION AT THE BRIDGE ACROSS ENGURI

The Russian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs called the oncoming on April 28 action of the Georgian youth at the bridge over Enguri, directly close to the post of the Russian peacekeepers, a new large provocation. In the statement is mentioned, that on April 25 Georgian temporary attorney in Russia on the Abkhazian problems, Sichinava was invited to the Russian Ministry of the Foreign Affairs, where to him was stated about the repeat addressing from the Russian side to the Georgian government about the impressibility of the illegal actions regarding the peacekeepers.




ACCORDING TO SHEVARDNADZE, AJARA AS AN AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC NEEDS THE CORRESPONDING ATTENTION

As mentioned Shevardnadze in his today’s radio interview, meeting in Ajara with Aslan Abashidze was planned due to the visit to Turkey. According to him, there is nothing surprising in the frequent visits of the country’s President to this region, moreover, in the autonomous republic happen conversions, with which he must get aquainted.

economics

THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE SMALL- AND MIDDLE-SCALE BUSINESSES IN FRANCE ARE GOING TO EXPAND THEIR RELATIONS WITH GEORGIA

In his today’s radio interview Eduard Shevardnadze touched his meeting with the representatives delegation of the small- and middle-scale business in France, during their repeat visit to Georgia. The guests showed their interest in continuing the mutual works on producing beer and wine, cooperation in the bank sphere, and the intention to realize the investments in the tourism sphere, showed their interest to the TRACECA project.