Georgian digest: excerpts

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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
 
December 1, 1998
 
1. Refugees from Gali Will Get Back Home after the Russians Move to
the Ghalidzga

As a precondition for the refugees' repatriation to the Gali district
of Abkhazia, Tbilisi demands to re-deploy Russian peacekeepers from
the Enguri river (that separates Abkhazia from the rest of Georgia) to
the Ghalidzga river (that separates the Gali district from the rest of
Abkhazia). Otherwise, the Georgian party will consider their
repatriation unacceptable.  According to State Minister Vazha
Lortkipanidze, Russia has agreed to move its peacekeepers, but Sukhumi
still disagrees. That is why the t�te-�-t�te talks between Eduard
Shevardnadze and Vladislav Ardzinba, the Abkhaz leader, are delayed
for undefined time.
Toma Chagelishvili. "Sakartvelos Gazeti" No. 166, December 1, p. 1

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5. Judges and Procurators Being Taught Human Rights
 
A seminar "Human Rights and Penitentiary System" for judges and
procurators is being held at the ombudsman's office on November
29-December 4, in co-operation with the Swedish Agency for
International Development and Raul Wallenberg Institute of Human
Rights and Humanitarian Law.
BS-Press agency. "Resonance" No. 329, December 1, p. 3
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December 4, 1998

1. Some People Want to Sow Discord between the Georgians and the Jews

More than 60 tombs were defiled in the old Jewish cemetery in Tbilisi
late at night on December 2: grave monuments were broken and photos
torn off, so that one of the tombs - that of a child - is even
impossible to restore. President Shevardnadze condemned this barbarous
action, ordered the city mayor to renew the broken tombs and demanded
the law-enforcement authorities to take decisive measures for
arresting the culprits.
Lela Kacheishvili. "Sakartvelos Gazeti" No. 169, December 4, p. 3

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