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1. STABILITY IN EUROPE IS INCREDIBLE WITHOUT STABILITY IN CAUCASUS, THINKS GEORGIA
   (Daily News: October 13, 2000)

   A 2-day workshop “The South Caucasus in a Big Europe under Construction” has set to work today. Parliamentary delegations of Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belorus, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, Romania and France are participating in the workshop, organized by the assistance of the Fund of Robert Schuman.

2. AZERBAIJAN IS READY TO BROADEN FRIENDLY RELATIONSHIPS WITH GEORGIA
   (Daily News: October 12, 2000)

   Chairman of Azerbaijani Milli-Mejlis, Murtuz Aleskerov stated this today, in the coarse of his visit in Tbilisi. According to Georgian Parliament’s press services, during his meeting with Chairman of Parliament Zurab Zhvania, Aleskerov stressed, “We have always been together when realizing those strategic aims, that politically and economically mean stabilized South Caucasus”.

3. PRESIDENT HAS NOT RULED OUT GEORGIA’S DEBT CLEARING TOWARDS RUSSIA
   (Daily News: October 10, 2000)

   Russia has its interests in Georgia, stated president Shevardnadze at the briefing on October 9, arguing the possibilities of clearing. In addition he noted, that Georgia owes Russia a determined foreign debt.

4. PLENARY SESSION OF THE PARLIAMENT WILL CONSIDER THE CASINO FATE
   (Daily News: October 5, 2000)

   The Finance-Budgetary Committee of the Parliament met today in order to discuss amendments to the legislation, suggesting closing casinos. The committee members proved to have different attitudes towards the question.

5. FINANCE MINISTER IN OPTIMISTIC TUNE ON THE EVE OF IMF MISSION’S VISIT
   (Daily News: October 4, 2000)

   The draft budget-2001 basically agrees with the IMF recommendations – this is how the Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli motivated his optimism at the government session today.

   On his turn, President Shevardnadze called for the whole economic and financial bloc of the government to conduct “a serious work” for the forthcoming visit of the Fund’s mission, as “the condition of our economics depends on it in many ways”.

6. FINANCE MINISTER HAS BECOME THE CHAIRMAN OF THE GEORGIAN STOCK-EXCHANGE ADVISERS COUNCIL
   (Daily News: October 3, 2000)

   The stock exchange advisers Council, which has met for the first time today, made the decision to elect the Finance Minster Zurab Nogaideli on this post. In his report, Nogaideli, stressing the importance of the stock market development in Georgia, said the Council would deal with general issues.

7. TECHNICAL INSPECTION OF VEHICLES, AS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT EVENT OF THE WEEK
   (Weekly Press Digest: October 1, 2000)

   Last week was the seventh anniversary of Sukhumi fall and the visit of NATO Secretary General. However, besides significance of these events, we can put it boldly, that dominating publications were dedicated to, such a trivial at first sight, event, as the consideration of tariff reduction on technical inspection of vehicles, at the Parliament.

8. EXPENDITURES ON AUTOMOBILE TRANSPORTATION TECHNICAL CHECKING
   (Daily News: September 27, 2000)

   Today the Parliament approved the changes, envisaging the reduction of technical checking cost of automobile transportation. The sum of the compulsory insurance is half reduced and accordingly, a road tax is also cut down.

9. NATO SECRETARY GENERAL WILL VISIT GEORGIA TODAY
   (Daily News: September 25, 2000)

   Today, at the briefing, President of Georgia defined George Robertson’s first visit as a planned one. Also today, in his radio interview, Shevardnadze noted, that Robertson’s predecessor, Javier Solana, has already visited Georgia.

10. POLITICAL SHIFTS – DO THEY CHANGE A SUM?
    (Weekly Press Digest: September 24, 2000)

    The presentation of New Movement, created by the “rebellions” who left the ruling party, and New Fraction, confirms in a due time stated presumption on existence of serious discrepancy among the Parliament majority and its main force – Citizen’s Union. Dilis Gazeti thinks, that in comparison with the majority leaving the fraction Abkhazeti this is qualitatively more serious loss for the ruling party, though the newspaper notes out, that official implementation of “anti-Zhvania” trends will not change a real policy.

11. NEW-OLD BUDGET OR BUDGET REFORM IN GEORGIA
    (Weekly Economic Review: September 23, 2000)

    The government is due to consider the budget-2001 project at the closed session this Saturday. We do not know the results of the discussion yet, this is not so important at the moment though.

12. COURT MIGHT CONSIDER THE QUESTION OVER THE RIGHTS ON THE POTI PORT 7^TH TERMINAL LAND PLOTS
    (Daily News: September 22, 2000)

    The Poti port is going to file a suit against the company Sameba, as it thinks that the land plot of the 7^th container terminal does not belong to this firm, the source at the State Property Management Ministry told Sarke.

    However, according to the Sameba director Zurab Tkemaladze, 2.12 hectares of the land of this terminal was given to this company for the construction of the terminal of spirits, mineral- and well-waters.

13. GOVERNMENT’S REFUSAL TO SUPPORT BUDGET-2001 KEY PARAMETERS “SHOULD NOT BE OVERDONE”, THINKS HEALTH CARE MINISTER
    (Daily News: September 20, 2000)

    Commenting the government’s refusal to support the key parameters of the budget-2000 introduced by the Finance Ministry, the Minister of Labor, Health Care and Social Welfare Avtandil Jorbenadze said, “this question should not be overdone”. He thinks that some of the articles published in the press might “lead to the war with the Finance Ministry”.

14. FINANCE MINISTRY AND HEALTH CARE MINISTRY HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS ABOUT READINESS TO SHIFT TO PENSION INSURANCE
    (Daily News: September 19, 2000)

    According to the Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli, Georgia will not be able to shift to the pension insurance system in the next 5-10 years. The Finance Ministry and Ministry of Health Care did not accorded this question and did not made appropriate calculations, consequently the system is not in the position to work, said Nogaideli.

15. GOVERNMENT REJECTED DRAFT BUDGET-2001, FINANCE MINISTRY IS TO PRESENT A NEW VERSION
    (Daily News: September 18, 2000)

    Under the decision of the government, the Finance Ministry is to prepare a new project, said the Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli. The version introduced was a complex one and rejection of some regulations suggests reviewing the complete project, he stressed.

16. PARLIAMENT POSTPONED THE RATIFICATION OF THE WB AGREEMENT
    (Daily News: September 15, 2000)

    The parliamentary session today considered the question over the ratification of the agreement with the World Bank. The agreement envisages allocation of the $1.5 million advance from the credit for the support of the education system reforms, intended for the preliminary works.

17. MINISTER OF AGRICULTURE DEMANDS ABOLISHMENT OF NUMBER OF TAXES IN HIS SPHERE
    (Daily News: September 14, 2000)

    At the Parliament session David Kirvalidze declared today, present taxation system of agriculture economy is crippling, and demanded to get released from payment of VAT and profit tax on manufacture output until its primary processing. The Agriculture Committee of Parliament supported this demand.

18. ON SEPTEMBER 14 HEAD OF THE JOINT STAFF OF THE US ARMED FORCES WILL ARRIVE IN GEORGIA
    (Daily News: September 13, 2000)

    According to the information of Intercon Int. (information bulletin, issued by the lobbyist of Georgia in the US Congress Paul Joyal), the purpose of Henry Sheldon’s visit is the discussion of reformation of Georgian army.

19. BUDGET PARAMETERS, AGREED WITH THE IMF, HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED OVER THE PAST 3 MONTHS
    (Daily News: September 12, 2000)

    The State Minister Giorgi Arsenishvili made this announcement while summing up the reports of the Minister of Tax Revenues and Finance Minister made at the Parliament session today. He expressed satisfaction with the work of both ministers.

20. PARLIAMENTARY COMMITTEE SENT BACK DRAFT AMENDMENTS TO BUDGET-2001 STRUCTURE TO FINANCE MINISTRY
    (Daily News: September 11, 2000)

    Today, the Committee on Health Care and Social Issues discussed the budget-2001 main parameters in connection with a number of structural amendments, proposed by the Finance Minister Zurab Nogaideli. Namely, he proposed to raise the budget spending on the Health Care up to 7.3% (as required by international organizations).

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