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1. PARLIAMENTARY JURIDICAL COMMITTEE CONSIDERING DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO ELECTION CODE
   (Daily News: September 21, 2001)

   It has been decided to make amendments to the recently adopted election code. Today, draft amendments was considered at the parliamentary Committee on Juridical Issues and Legality.

2. GUUAM NATIONAL COORDINATORS MET IN BAKU
   (Daily News: September 21, 2001)

   A regular session of GUUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova) national coordinators was held in Baku on September 18-19. Zurab Beridze, director of the 2^nd European department of the Foreign Ministry, presented the Georgian delegation.

3. SAAKASHVILI EXPLAINING HIS RESIGNATION
   (Daily News: September 20, 2001)

   Mikheil Saakashvili, now already former Justice Minister motivated his resignation by an unbearable environment in present government. According to him, he had not been able to achieve anything in a separate Ministry.

4. OPPOSITION CONSIDERS PRESIDENT’S LEAVING OF POST OF CHAIRMAN OF CITIZENS’ UNION LATE
   (Daily News: September 18, 2001)

   As Sandro Bregadze, MP from the opposition bloc Agordzineba told Sarke, President Shevardnadze, being Chairman of the ruling party Citizens’ Union (CU), has been violating the Constitution for several years. Though in MP’s point of view, this had been the reason for President’s current decision only, since an actual ground – opposition in CU.

5. POSSIBLE REPLACEMENT OF FINANCE MINISTER
   (Daily News: September 17, 2001)

   Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli would probably make a statement on resignation at the nearest government meeting. The source in the Parliament informed Sarke about it referring to Parliament Speaker’s speech at the closed parliament majority meeting today.

6. THEME OF SPEAKER’S RESIGNATION EXHAUSTED, ZHVANIA IS SURE
   (Daily News: September 17, 2001)

   Zurab Zhvania, the Parliament Chairman stated today at the press conference, that the talks over his possible resignation must end up. He noted, that in a specified term until September 14 the opposition had to collect 100 signatures on resignation.

7. CITIZENS’ UNION IS FACED WITH DIFFICULT EXAMINATION, CONSIDERS PARLIAMENT CHAIRMAN
   (Daily News: September 17, 2001)

   In the near future a meeting of Citizens’ Union must be held, having remained without the Chairman of the ruling party. Heading the party, President Shevardnadze informed today about his leaving the post of the Chairman.

8. DRAFT LAW ON TRADE-INDUSTRIAL CHAMBER HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO ADOPT AT FIRST READING
   (Daily News: September 13, 2001)

   The draft law, prepared by the Committee for Branch Economic, was submitted for consideration today at the Parliament plenary session. For the quorum absence, the voting did not take place in the 1^st and 2^nd part of the day.

9. GEORGIA IS INDIGNANT BY TERRORIST ACTS AND EXPRESSES COMMISERATION TO THE US
   (Daily News: September 12, 2001)

   Georgian President sent a dispatch to the US President, where he stresses convulsion and reprehension on series of terrorist acts, having taken place in the United States on September 11. Georgian leader expresses the condolences to the American people.

10. APPARENTLY SPEAKER IS NOT UNDER RESIGNATION DANGER
    (Daily News: September 11, 2001)

    For today, there is not a single signature, demanding Zurab Zhvania’s resignation, informs Parliament department on personnel issues. Zhvania, has officially involved the statement with a proposal to begin collecting signatures in the department on September 7.

11. PARLIAMENT SPEAKER OFFERING TO SET UP AN ANTI-CORRUPTION MONITORING COUNCIL
    (Daily News: September 11, 2001)

    The Council, according to Zurab Zhvania Parliament Chairman, will be obliged to consider every draft law before they are adopted by the Parliament. We are to take this step, to restore confidence in the nation, considering that the elements of the corruption are in the parliament also stated Zhvania today, at the plenary session, motivating the Council creation.

12. PROGRAM STATEMENT OF PARLIAMENT CHAIRMAN
    (Daily News: September 11, 2001)

    Today, Zurab Zhvania, Speaker, began his speech at the 1^st fall Parliament plenary session with the crisis recognition in the country. This is not the crisis of authorities and the Parliament only, it is a crisis which can capture the whole public, stated he.

13. 3^RD TIME CENTRAL ELECTORAL COMMISSION FAILS TO HOLD MEETING
    (Daily News: September 7, 2001)

    Today, the Central Electoral Commission (CEC) meeting has been postponed again. It assumed to discuss organization issues before the forthcoming elections.

14. PARLIAMENT CHAIRMAN IS NOT AFRAID OF RESIGNATION
    (Daily News: September 7, 2001)

    Today, Zurab Zhvania officially made a suggestion to start collecting signatures with demand over his resignation. He expressed readiness to resign in case, even if 100 MPs come against him.

15. EX-MINISTER OF TAX REVENUES ALREADY ENGAGED
    (Daily News: September 6, 2001)

    Mikheil Machavariani, having resigned in August, is returning in the Parliament. Before appointed on the post, Mikheil Machavariani had been MP and Secretary General of the Citizens’ Union, the ruling party.

16. MAJORITY REPRESENTATIVES APPEAL OPPOSITION TO COLLABORATION
    (Daily News: September 6, 2001)

    The majority reformatory wing is ready to cooperate with the opposition to enter alterations in the law on local self-government system, adopted by the Parliament at the fall session this year. MPs Zurab Adeishvili, Vano Merabishvili and Vasil Maglaperidze from the ruling party Citizen’s Union, stated about it today at the press conference.

17. NO SINGLE STANCE IN THE MAJORITY
    (Daily News: September 3, 2001)

    Today the parliamentary majority considered an appeal to President. The appeal has the same nature as an open letter written to the head of the state by the speaker of Parliament, which published last week.

18. SESSION OF POLITICAL COMMITTEE OF PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLY OF COUNCIL OF EUROPE IS RUNNING IN TBILISI
    (Daily News: September 3, 2001)

    Circuit 2-days meeting of political committee will be held behind the closed doors. According to the Georgian Parliament press service, the session discusses the issues of regional security and cooperation, provision of stability in the Caucasus.

19. WILL TBILISI AIRPORT BE CLOSED AT NIGHT?
    (Daily News: August 30, 2001)

    Chairman of the administration of the civil aviation, Zurab Perishvili, sent a letter to the leadership of the Tbilisi airport, which contained an order to close the airport at night. This decision was motivated by ecological aspects and by the fact that the noise made by planes when taking off and landing bothered residents of near residential quarters.

20. GEORGIAN GOVERNMENT PREFERS TO GET WB TRANCHES SEPARATELY
    (Daily News: August 30, 2001)

    The World Bank postponed the allocation of the second and third tranches of SAC-3, each $20 million, because of Georgia’s failure to meet a number of conditions. At the moment, Tbilisi can count on getting the second tranche as all conditions set by the WB have been actually met, said Temur Basilia, President’s aid on economic issues.

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