Georgian Digest: excerpts
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Georgian Digest: excerpts
ANNOTATED DAILY HEADLINES
OF THE GEORGIAN PRESS
Compiled by the Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and
Development (CIPDD)
Text: Tamara Shamil
English version: Guram Dumbadze
Editor: Emil Adelkhanov-Steinberg
November 2, 1998
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5. The Refugee Population Needs a Refugee President
Due to the forthcoming local elections, the Georgian-Abkhaz talks have
intensified, the ruling party and its leader seem anxious to win the
refugee votes, the newspaper argues. The same reason accounts for the
fact that the government allowed the refugees to hold their congress
in Tbilisi. The authorities want to calm the people who have lost all
their property and will hardly share their optimism about prompt
settlement of the conflicts and repatriation.
Konstantin Alavidze. "Meridiani 44" No. 327, November 2-4, p. 1
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3 November, 1998
1. Russian Frontier Guards to Leave Georgia
Valeri Chkheidze, the chairman of the SDFD (State Department of
Frontier Defence of Georgia), and Konstantin Totsky, the director of
the Federal Frontier Service of Russia, are going to sign an
agreement today on ceding the property of the Georgia-based Russian
frontier troops to Georgia. At the same time, Mr Avdeev, deputy
foreign minister of Russia, and Mr Kakabadze, the ambassador of
Georgia to Russia, will sign a document on co-operation between the
two countries' frontier services. According to the agreement, the
Russian frontier guards will be gradually withdrawn from the
Akhaltsikhe and Batumi sectors of the Georgian-Turkish border.
George Djalabadze. "Sakartvelos Gazeti" No. 142, November 3, p. 1
2. Russian Troops Pay Georgia Nothing
The Georgia-stationed Russian frontier troops and military bases owe
to the Sakenergo (Georgia Energy ) and TELASI (Tbilisi Eletcricity
Supply Network) companies several million Lari. Only two military
bases are in debt of 1.4 mln GEL for water supplies. Besides, the
Russian military refuse to pay the land rent, excusing themselves by
Moscow's failure to transfer budgetary finances in time. For their
parts, the frontier guards claim their financial problems to be caused
by Tbilisi's unwillingness to pay them for defending Georgian borders.
According to the Russian-Georgian agreement, Georgia has to cover 40
percent of the expenses of the Russian frontier guards but the
Georgian parliament has not ratified the
document so far.
Mirian Lebanidze. "Resonance" No. 301, November 3, p. 1
3. There Are No More "Forbidden Themes" in the Georgian-
Armenian Relations
The Georgian-Armenian inter-parliamentary commission has completed its
sitting in Tbilisi. Two consultative groups were created: one for
economic problems (it has to conform the two countries' taxation and
customs legislation, examine prospects of integration in the framework
of the TRACECA project, etc.) and the other for political issues.
Sakinform. "Svobodnaya Gruzia" No. 312, November 3, p. 1
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November 6, 1998
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3. A "Refugee" Kakubava Hid in Baku
Some 150 refugees led by Boris Kakubava, the chairman of the
Co-ordination Council of the Refugees from Abkhazia and South Ossetia,
broke into the paediatric clinic of the Medical University on November
1, demanding rooms for the refugees to live. The administration
refused them. They responded with "little thuggery". After the
Procurator General's Office instituted legal proceedings on the
incident, Kakubava left for Baku. It seems that if Parliament lifts
his parliamentary immunity, many people will consider it political
persecution.
Rusiko Mumladze. "Resonance" No. 303, November 5, pp. 1, 3
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