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President Eduard Shevardnadze considers that the adoption of the law on religion in Georgia will regulate relationships among all religions.

The draft has been already prepared and needs elaboration in order to be introduced to the Parliament, President said in a radio interview today.

President Eduard Shevardnadze in today’s radio interview and on the briefing as well, commented the agreement on creating common economical space, signed by the heads of Byelorussia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine on the summit of CIS in Yalta in September 19.

Shevardnadze did not exclude productive cooperation with these four countries, but only if this agreement did not contradict the obligations of Georgia, including ones to WTO.

President Eduard Shevardnadze said in a radio interview today that the CIS summit, held in Yalta on December 18-19, was “difficult” and there was a danger of a “strong demarche” by Georgia’s representatives.

Georgia was reluctant to consider other questions and even could refuse to be a member of the organization unless the question of Abkhazia was included in the schedule (the Russian Foreign Minister suggested not to include it), says Shevardnadze.

The agreement on joining the International Criminal Court by Georgia will shortly come into force. The Parliament of the country ratified the agreement in the summer.

Today the chairman of Latvian Seym Ingrida Urbe has met with the speaker Nino Burjanadze. The sides have discussed the course of the preparations for the Parliamentary elections in Georgia.

According to the Central Electoral Commission, nine political alliances and 16 parties will take part in the November 2 Parliamentary election. The final party lists will be known in a few days.

Speaker Nino Burjanadze accuses the authorities of unwillingness to conduct elections and purposeful intension to disrupt her electoral campaign.

As the speaker declared at today’s briefing: “The pro-governmental alliance instead of caring about the own electoral campaign intends to disrupt the other’s”.

The assembly of Tiger jets, four-seat passenger planes, will start next year, George Beridze, head of the public relations department of JSC Tbilaviamsheni (the Tbilisi aircraft factory) told Sarke.

Beridze says the agreement on the project realization was concluded with American partners as part of the visit of Tbilaviamsheni’s director general Nodar Beridze to the US last week.