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1. NUMBER OF MAGTI GSM SUBSCRIBERS INCREASED BY 46%
   (Daily News: January 27, 2003)

   The overall number of the subscribers in 2002 reached 260,000, which is by 82,000 (46%) more the 178,000 of 2001, Zurab Beselia, Magti GSM mobile communication operator’s marketing manager, told Sarke.

   Magti GSM’s transfers to the budget increased by 86.6%.

2. MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT AND COMMUNICATIONS OPPOSES CONSTITUTIONAL COURT’S RULING
   (Daily News: January 22, 2003)

   Minister of Transport and Communications Merab Adeishvili told a press conference today the Constitutional Court “has exceeded its power and has made a shocking decision”, which ruled imposing administration fees illegal.

   The Minister said the decision was biased, unacceptable both economically and juridically, and was directed against reforms in the transport sphere.

3. GEORGIA PARTICIPANT OF CONFERENCE OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF CIS 7 STATES IN SWITZERLAND
   (Daily News: January 20, 2003)

   Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan are participants of the conference, which opened today and will continue until January 22. The international donors – the World Bank, the IMF and EBRD, the Asian Bank of Development will attend to elaborating the standards and strategy of relations and trends of economic development of the 7 states within the CIS, declared poor.

4. ABKHAZIAN IMPASSE
   (Weekly Press Digest: January 19, 2003)

   This week’s Georgian newspapers proved especially hospitable to the Abkhazian problem which became an issue of major concern against the backdrop of the ongoing protest actions of the Abkhazian refugees, calling the authorities towards more effective measures.

   Rezonansi says the Abkhazian problem continues to be urgent for both the authorities and the opposition as well as for common citizens of Georgia.

5. AGITATION AROUND THE MINIMAL SALARY
   (Weekly Press Digest: January 12, 2003)

   This week the Parliament’s Health and Social Welfare Committee paid its due to the United Democrats faction’s initiative to increase the existing 20-Lari minimal salary to 115 Lari – the subsistence level, a question of particular concern at the end of last year.

   Dilis Gazeti writes although being a pro-Governmental faction’s representative, Zezva Gugunishvili, the Committee’s chair, naturally had no intent to hold a hearing in favor of the United Democrats, Zhvania’s teamappeared in full composition and got hold of “a wonderful chance to advertise” its initiative.

6. UNITED DEMOCRATS FAIL TO ACHIEVE CONSIDERATION OF MINIMUM WAGES IN THE FIRST PLACE
   (Daily News: December 25, 2002)

   Parliament today did not support Zurab Zhvania the United Democrats leader’s demand to change the agenda of the extraordinary session and considered the party’s proposal on the increase of minimum wages first.

   Therefore, Parliament will consider first the draft budget-2003 (roughly on December 26).

7. A DIALOGUE BETWEEN PRESIDENT SHEVARDNADZE AND EX-SPEAKER OF PARLIAMENT RESUMES
   (Daily News: December 23, 2002)

   Today commenting on a meeting with Zurab Zhvania, the ex-speaker of Parliament and current leader of United Democrats, President Eduard Shevardnadze said that there had been a “constructive dialogue” between them.

   According to President, they considered the current situation in the country and a new proposal launched by United Democrats to bring minimum wages in line with a subsistence level.

8. TBILGAZ AND SAKGAZ FORMER EXECUTIVES FACE CHARGES
   (Daily News: November 28, 2002)

   At a meeting with State Minister Avtandil Jorbenadze today Deputy Interior Minister Zurab Khazhalia reported on violations in JSC Tbilgaz, capital’s gas distributor, and JSC Sakgaz, affiliated company of Itera, Georgia’s sole gas supplier. The meeting was dedicated to power issues.

9. PARLIAMENT, THE STATE PATRIOTISM, TBILISI’S SAKREBULO AND THE MAYOR’S OFFICE
   (Weekly Press Digest: November 17, 2002)

   The past week proved extremely charged with politics. Tbilisi’s Sakrebulo continued working, Christian-Democratic Union held its session, the deputies set about the same old fights at Parliament (“a fights-free session is already out of all interest, it seems”, Dilis Gazeti’s wrote).

10. WAYS OF PRIVATIZING TBILISI AVIATION PLANT CONSIDERED
    (Daily News: November 14, 2002)

    Variants of privatizing JSC Tbilaviamsheni (Tbilisi Aviation Plant) were discussed during today’s joint session of the Branch Economy and Economic Policy Committees. The committees noted it is reasonable to alter the form of the ownership for this 100% state-owned enterprise.

11. FROM DECEMBER THE IRISH COMPANY TO CONTROL ENERGY TRANSMITION AND DISPATCHING SERVICES
    (Daily News: November 7, 2002)

    Zurab Garakanidze, the deputy Minister of State Property Management, reported that Irish Company ESBI will tentatively start operating from December 2-3. According to him, the process of the object’s transferring under management has been dragged on “not through the fault of the Georgian side”.

12. GENERAL INSPECTION BILL PREPARED
    (Daily News: November 6, 2002)

    Deputy Justice Minister Zurab Ezugbaia introduced to a Parliament today the bill on “General Inspection”. The document aims at providing control within the structures of executive authorities.

13. CLASHES IN PARLIAMENT
    (Daily News: November 6, 2002)

    The Parliament session today broke off due to a conflict between MPs Petre Tsiskarishvili, Movement for Democratic Reforms faction, and Vasil Gigolashvili, Alliance for New Georgia.

    Therefore, Parliament could not adopt a resolution on facts of breaking law and disturbing public order while considering results of June Sakrebulo (the self-government body) elections in Tbilisi.

14. IMPEACHMENT FAR AND WIDE!
    (Weekly Press Digest: November 3, 2002)

    “Shevardnadze’s impeachment is going to become the subject of the current week”, Rezonansi predicted on Monday. And so it happened.

15. UNITED DEMOCRATS PLEDGE TO COME TO POWER
    (Daily News: November 1, 2002)

    Zurab Zhvania, the United Democrats leader, announced the intention of the party today to win forthcoming Parliamentary and presidential elections. He said United Democrats presented the “very force that was able to replace the authority through democratic elections”.

16. UNITED DEMOCRATS DEDICATE FORUM TO THE QUESTIONS OF FOREIGN POLICY AND SECURITY
    (Daily News: October 29, 2002)

    Zurab Zhvania, the leader of United Democrats, said at today’s forum that foreign policy is the sphere regarding which his party has least pretenses towards Georgia’s authorities.

    According to Zhvania, among the party’s priorities are theorientation towards the West and Georgia’s entrance into the EU and the NATO.

17. WORK ON ILLEGAL INCOME LEGALIZATION BILL CONTINUES
    (Daily News: October 23, 2002)

    The document that gathers up both the Ministry and the National Bank’s (NB) positions has not yet been prepared, Zurab Anteladze, head of the Department of the Finance Ministry, told Sarke. He said hot debates over the mechanism of the financial monitoring were underway.

18. BATUMI BLOC’S THREE FACTIONS DEMAND PRESIDENT’S IMPEACHMENT
    (Daily News: October 22, 2002)

    At today’s closed-doors meeting of Agordzineba, United Georgia and 21^st Century, the factions of the Agordzineba bloc, decided to raise the question on the President’s impeachment.

    The factions say the President has violated the 69 and 71 articles of the Constitution, as he failed to guarantee the country’s integrity, the security and well being of the population, observing of the constitution by the state organs.

19. THE ECHO OF THE PARLIAMENT’S DEMARCHE
    (Weekly Press Digest: October 20, 2002)

    Naturally, the newspapers continue to traverse on the subject of the five factions’ demarche, after the President’s speech at Parliament on October 11. The first, mostly emotional responses were followed by the attempts to analyze the situation.

20. AMENDMENTS PLANNED INTO THE LAW “ON INDUSTRIAL ACTIVITY CONTROL”
    (Daily News: October 17, 2002)

    The Land Management Department considers the operation of the law has virtually paralyzed its activity on accounting the lots, owned by enterprises. Today Economic Policy Committee’s session considered the amendments, offered by the Department.

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