GEORGIA AND SLOVENIA MAKE FIRST STEPS TO COOPERATE
(Daily News: November 30, 2001)
Political consultations between the Georgian and Slovenian Foreign Ministries will be held in Tbilisi on December 4-5. Zurab Beridze, head of the second European department of the Foreign Ministry, will present the Georgian side.
TAX COMMITTEE BACKS CANDIDATURES FOR ECONOMIC BLOC MINISTERS
(Daily News: November 29, 2001)
The parliamentary Committee on Taxes and Revenues approved candidatures proposed by President after considering them today.
The head of the committee Vitali Khazaradze expressed his special support to Zurab Nogaideli’s candidature for the post of the Finance Minister.
NEW CANDIDATURE TO BE INTRODUCED ON THE POST OF STATE MINISTER
(Daily News: November 28, 2001)
There have occurred some changes in the candidates for the still vacant posts of state minister and ministers of the economic bloc. After President Shevardnadze held meetings with representatives of parliamentary factions he changed his candidature for the post of state minister.
PARLIAMENT EXPECTS RESOLUTION OF COMMISSION ON INVESTIGATION OF BUDGET-2001 REDUCTION REASONS
(Daily News: November 27, 2001)
The final version of the resolution has been already prepared and the parliament expected to get the document, signed by President, today.
Let us noted that the parliament does not intend to start considering candidatures for the post of economic bloc ministers until after the commission, which is investigating reasons for the recently implemented 184-million sequester, introduces its resolution.
THE GOVERNMENT’S EXPECTATIONS AND PARADOXES
(Weekly Press Digest: November 25, 2001)
Today everybody’s attention is focused on the formation of the executive power, Resonansi writes. The question of what kind of ministers Georgia is going to meet the New Year with or whether these new ones will be able to measure up the population expectations or not is not clear yet.
FINANCIAL-BUDGETARY COMMITTEE STILL UNCERTAIN ABOUT FINANCE MINSTER’S CANDIDATURE
(Daily News: November 20, 2001)
The Financial-Budgetary Committee of the parliament is not going to make a final decision regarding the candidate for the finance minister until the commission, studying the reasons for the budget crises, has published its conclusion, which is due to be introduced within days. The draft of the document has already been prepared but its content has not been publicized.
EX-SPEAKER INTENDS TO SET UP NEW PARTY
(Daily News: November 15, 2001)
Zurab Zhvania, recently resigned chairman of Parliament, confirmed the information that he intends to set up a new party. I am thinking about it and will shortly inform you on concrete plans, he said.
CANDIDATURES FOR NEW GOVERNMENT NAMED
(Daily News: November 15, 2001)
As it became known today President will nominate Levan Dzneladze on the post of the state minister. Among the heads of the force structures President will offer Valeri Khaburzania as the security minister and Koba Narchemashvili – interior minister.
MPS DO NOT AGREE ON PRINCIPLES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGES TO GOVERNMENT
(Daily News: November 14, 2001)
Structural changes to the government put forward by President and considered at the Juridical Committee of Parliament today, evoked unfavorable criticism among MPs. Parliament Members will back the reduction in ministers’ number, though, changes should be based on other principles, said Zurab Adeishvili, head of the committee.
SPEAKER’S POST STILL VACANT
(Daily News: November 6, 2001)
Debates over the candidature of a speaker have not yielded any results at a plenary session of Parliament today. The issue has been decided to postpone to the end of plenary week due to the necessity of holding additional consultations.
EX-SPEAKER MEETS PRESIDENT AND AMBASSADORS
(Daily News: November 5, 2001)
Zurab Zhvania, stepping down as the speaker on his own will, met representatives of a diplomatic corps accredited in Georgia on November 3. According to the press-center of Parliament, the ambassadors see Zhvania’s decision as a necessary and well-calculated step in terms of the stability in the country.
PRESIDENT ACKNOWLEDGES WEAKNESS OF AUTHORITIES
(Daily News: November 1, 2001)
Georgian President, in his speech in a live program of the state television on October 3, said the weakness of the authorities had driven the population to go outside. If they [the authorities] had had a full control over the situation there would not have been protest actions in Rustaveli Avenue, problems in Abkhazia said Eduard Shevardnadze.
RESIGNATION AFTER RESIGNATION
(Daily News: November 1, 2001)
Amidst protest actions in the center of Tbilisi and an extraordinary session in Parliament, Georgian President dismissed the government. The deputy ministers are fulfilling the duties of ministers at the moment.
PRESIDENT AND CHAIRMAN OF PARLIAMENT COMMENTING ON DEVELOPMENTS AROUND TV COMPANY RUSTAVI-2
(Daily News: October 31, 2001)
The Security Ministry did not think out the measures it applied; if not that there would not have been so much concerns and emotions, said President Eduard Shevardnadze while commenting on the situation today.
The head of the state stressed that the Interior Ministry had nothing to do with this case as the materials of the Chamber of Control had been submitted to the Security Ministry by the order of the General Prosecutor’s Office (the TV company Rustavi-2 is charged with the non payment of taxes).
AUTHORITIES POSING PROBLEMS TO INDEPENDENT TV COMPANY
(Daily News: October 30, 2001)
Representatives of the Investigative Department of the Security Ministry visited the office of the TV company Rustavi-2 today to withdraw documents regarding financial settlements of the office with the budget. Heads of the TV company, however, refused to present material, stressing there were no violations revealed by the Tax Service during checking conducted at the company a week ago.
GEORGIAN AND RUSSIAN MPS STARTING DIALOGUE
(Daily News: October 29, 2001)
Today, Zurab Zhvania, Parliament Chairman, commenting at the briefing results of the visit in Moscow at the end of the last week, stated, that a foundation has been laid for the dialogue between Georgia and Russia. The meeting of MPs of 2 countries, according to Speaker, now will take place monthly.
PRESIDENT OF PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF OSCE OFFERS SETTING UP A GROUP OF FRIENDS OF GEORGIA
(Daily News: October 25, 2001)
As part of his regional trip to the South Caucasus the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the OSCE Adrian Severin visited Georgia for two days this week. He held meetings with the Chairman of Georgian Parliament Zurab Zhvania, Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations Nino Burjanadze and heads of factions.
MPS ARE INDIGNANT BY TARIFF INCREASE ON ELECTRICITY
(Daily News: October 24, 2001)
At the beginning of the plenary session today, MPs expressed their indignation over the decision on increase of tariff for used electricity in Tbilisi and enactment of monthly user payment adopted on the eve.
Claims have been expressed towards the National Commission for Energetic Settlement, having adopted given decision, and towards the Ministry of Fuel and Energy, which assured MPs, that in case of giving tax preferences to AES TELASI power-distributing company of the Capital, the tariff would not rise.
SPEAKER OF GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT WILL HOLD MEETINGS IN MOSCOW
(Daily News: October 24, 2001)
The visit of Zurab Zhvania, Chairman of the Georgian Parliament to the capital of Russia will last from October 25 to 28. The meetings with Head of the Russian State Duma, Genadi Selezniov, representatives of the Parliament fractions are scheduled.
CHAIRMEN OF SOUTH CAUCASUS COUNTRIES MET IN TBILISI
(Daily News: October 24, 2001)
The meeting between speakers of Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia took place on October 23 in governmental apartments of Krtsanisi. According to the Georgian Parliament press-service, participants of the meeting supported Georgia’s territorial integrity and expressed preoccupation on the possible escalation of tensity in Abkhazia.
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