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1. UNITED DEMOCRATS AND TRADE UNIONS OF THE EDUCATION SECTOR DECIDE TO JOIN EFFORTS
   (Daily News: March 27, 2003)

   United Democrats and trade unions of the education sector signed a memorandum on cooperation in the Youth Palace, Tbilisi today. The memorandum calls for joining efforts in order to increase minimum wages to leaving wage.

2. PARLIAMENT TO MAKE A FINAL DECISION ON MINIMUM WAGES
   (Daily News: March 20, 2003)

   According to the procedure, Parliament will vote on President’s alternative of changes to the Labor Code, under which minimum wages are to rise to leaving cost not from July 1, 2003 but July 1, 2005.

   If new version fails to gather 79 votes then a secondary voting will take place on the version confirmed by Parliament in February and vetoed by President.

3. RATIFICATION OF MILITARY COOPERATION AGREEMENT BETWEEN GEORGIA AND THE US POSTPONED TO NEXT WEEK
   (Daily News: March 20, 2003)

   Today Parliament has failed once more to gather a quorum for the ratification of a military cooperation agreement between Georgia and the US, to which some changes had been made. By Georgian President’s initiative, the question had been included in the agenda of the extraordinary session.

4. TODAY’S EXTRAORDINARY SESSION CUT SHORT
   (Daily News: March 18, 2003)

   An extraordinary session of Parliament was cut short today. The consideration of questions in the agenda was postponed to March 19.

5. SOCIALISTS LEADER CRITICIZES PARLIAMENT SPEAKER, VICE-SPEAKER AND EX-SPEAKER
   (Daily News: March 17, 2003)

   At a news conference today Vakhtang Rcheulishvili, the Socialists leader, warned against the danger of a Parliamentary crisis, which, he said, might turn into a “wide scale crisis of the authorities”. He demanded in this connection that current Parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze, vice-speaker Gigi Tsereteli and the team of the ex-speaker Zurab Zhvania, currently the United Democrats party leader, be held accountable.

6. UNITED DEMOCRATS LEADER SAYS PRESIDENT IS RELUCTANT TO SPEAK WITH THE OPPOSITION
   (Daily News: March 17, 2003)

   Confrontation in Parliament serves Georgian President’s interests; in fact, it was not Vitali Khazaradze, chairman of the Citizens’ Union faction, and Vakhtang Rcheulishvili, the Socialists leader, who opposed increasing minimum wages but Eduard Shevardnadze, said Zurab Zhvania, the United Democrats leader, commenting on a decision of the latter to hold on March 18 Parliament’s extraordinary session, which will discuss canceling Parliament’s earlier decision on increasing minimum wages on July 1 (from 20 to 115 Lari).

   Zhvania told a news conference today: “President who does not want a dialogue with the opposition and his own people is dangerous for the country”.

7. NEW RIGHTS PROPOSE TO SEQUESTER BUDGET AND PUT OFF RAISING MINIMUM WAGES
   (Daily News: March 13, 2003)

   At a plenary session of Parliament today David Gamkrelidze, the leader of the New Rights faction, demanded that the State Minister, the economic team of the government and force structures be held responsible for the budget crises.

   According to the MP, President should create a precedent of punishment by punishing those responsible for the budget crises in order to avert the danger of default and problems with restructuring Georgia’s foreign debt in the Paris Club of creditor states.

8. RAISING MINIMUM WAGES REMAINS TICKLISH ISSUE FOR PARLIAMENT
   (Daily News: March 12, 2003)

   For the second day Parliament has been unable to hold plenary sessions due to the lack of quorum since the oppositions is reluctant to take part in the registration in an effort to contradict the government’s attempt to cancel the Parliament’s recent decision on making amendments to the Labor Code, under which on July 1 minimum wages (20 Lari) is to rise to the leaving cost (now around 115 Lari).

   At a special news conference today Zurab Zhvania, the leader of United Democrats, which launched the initiative, said the opposition was against such form of demarche but it had been forced to do so due to the government’s intention to revoke the law.

9. SOCIALISTS WILL TEAM UP WITH CITIZENS’ UNION
   (Daily News: March 7, 2003)

   Vakhtang Rcheulishvili, the Socialists leader, officially declared today that the party in the fall Parliamentary elections would participate in alliance with the Citizens’ Union (CU).

   Rcheulishvili is confident the alliance will be able to not only overcome the 7 per cent hurdle but also gather over 20% of votes.

10. LIBERTY IN LIQUIDATION
    (Daily News: March 5, 2003)

    The National Bank (NB) made the decision to liquidate Liberty, the intercontinental commercial bank in Batumi, due to its insolvency.

    Liberty had not appealed against the NB’s decision (it could appeal until March 5), Murtaz, Kikoria, head of the banking supervision and regulation department of NB, told Sarke.

11. DEMAND FOR CHIATURMARGANETS PRODUCTION RISES
    (Daily News: March 5, 2003)

    Demand for manganese concentrate has increased recently, especially on the Russian market, Zurab Garakanidze, Deputy State Property Management Minister told journalists today. According to him, 4-5 companies have already expressed interest in the production of JSC Chiaturmarganets.

12. PARLIAMENT DECIDES ON LEVELLING MINIMUM AND LIVING WAGES
    (Daily News: February 28, 2003)

    Parliament today unanimously voted for amendments to the Labor Code (by 90 votes), under which minimum wages (20 Lari) is to rise to the cost of living (around 115 Lari). The changes will take affect on July 1.

13. UNREGULATED LEGAL BASE MIGHT MEAN PROBLEMS FOR BRITISH AND TURKISH AIR CARRIERS
    (Daily News: February 28, 2003)

    The Parliament charged the Foreign Ministry to in due course submit for ratification the agreement on the air communication between Georgia and Turkey, signed in 1992 and speed up the preparation of the normative base between Great Britain and Georgia, who have so far only initiated a corresponding document.

    The Transport and Communications Ministry’s Air Administration is charged to terminate, prior to preparation of the normative base, the action of the permissions on the regular flights for the British Mediterranean and Turkish Airlines air carriers, which implement flights to Georgia.

14. SO FAR 10 CURRENCY EXCHANGE POINTS JOIN THE ASSOCIATION
    (Daily News: February 27, 2003)

    According to the National Bank (NB), only 10 of the 314 registered currency exchange points have jointed the Currency Exchange Points Association, established in the mid February.

    The Association aims at coordination of the activity in the said sphere, the joint consideration and determination of the measures to resolve the problems.

15. EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT DELEGATION SURVEYS SITUATION IN GEORGIA
    (Daily News: February 25, 2003)

    The European Parliament’s delegation, visiting Georgia, today met with Parliament speaker Nino Burjanadze, Vice-speaker from Abkhazia’s autonomy Vakhtang Kolbaia and Zurab Zhvania, a member of Georgia’s Parliamentary delegation to the Council of Europe.

    Burjanadze requested the European Parliament’ representatives for their more active involvement into the Abkhazian conflict settlement and expressed criticism toward Russia, which well seizes the situation for pressuring on Georgia.

16. POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS FOOD IMPORTED TO EVADE AGRICULTURE MINISTRY’S BAN
    (Daily News: February 20, 2003)

    As Veterinary Department’s chair Levan Ramishvili reported, according to the Agriculture Minister’s ban it is prohibited to bring in to Georgia the food from the countries where communicable deceases are spread. The Ministry makes the list of these countries on basis of the information from the International Epizootic Bureau.

17. NATIONAL MOVEMENT OFFERS LEIBORISTS TICKETS UNIFICATION AT THE ELECTIONS
    (Daily News: February 20, 2003)

    During February 19^th press conference one of the National Movement’s leaders Koba Davitashvili offered Laborists to unite tickets since the two parties have many a points of convergence in their stands. He said suchunification would aim to receive about 2/3 at the Parliament and successfully raise the question on the pre-term Presidential elections.

18. COUNCIL OF EUROPE’S MONITORING GROUP VISITING GEORGIA
    (Daily News: February 13, 2003)

    Within the framework of its visit of February 12-15, the Council of Europe’s (CE) monitoring group composed of 2 experts met behind closed doors with Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze and representatives of some Parliamentary factions and committees.

    Burjanadze said this meeting with the experts attended to the question of the violations, traced during the previous elections and pointed out the importance for the coming elections to be fair.

19. STATE OFFICE IMPOSES RESTRICTIONS ON JOURNALISTS
    (Daily News: February 12, 2003)

    Not any more will journalists be able to be in the State Office during consultations and closed-door meetings and interview government officials after such meetings.

    Bondo Mdzinarishvili, deputy press secretary of President, told Sarke, this created disarray and commenting on all the issues on the run was not acceptable.

20. PARLIAMENT CONSIDERS ATTACK ON NEW RIGHTS’ OFFICE
    (Daily News: February 4, 2003)

    The spring session opened today with a meeting of the Parliamentary bureau, which discussed yesterday’s attack on the New Rights’ office together with representatives of the law enforcement forces.

    Deputy Interior Minister Zurab Khazhaliareported that according to preliminary data up to 40 people had participated in the attack, and pointed out that the case was considered as the conflict within the party.

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