Georgia News Digest 01-09-07

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1. The South Caucasus countries and the ENP: Three different paths to Europe?
2. Necessary cross-border cooperation
3. The new Europe should take the role of “bad guys” to hinder Europe from becoming closed, self-satisfied”
4. paper: “The South Caucasus: Back and Forward to Europe” [intro]
5. US policies drive Taiwan’s isolation
6. Hungarian, Georgian MPs Visiting Estonia
7. Russia And The United States Wrestle For Control Of The OSCE Agenda
8. Is separatism good for Russia?
9. Washington Will Increase Its Pressure On Moscow In Order To Get Concessions On Priority Issues
10. The European Union and conflicts in the South Caucasus
11. Armenia report, Kosovo status and Russian-Georgian relations to be considered at PACE winter session
12. Command of the CIS peacekeeping forces call the allegations of Georgian media “inappropriate”
13. According to Georgian media broadcasting of Georgian TV channels will be suppressed in Abkhazia
14. New Abkhaz Transmitters May Jam Georgian Mobile Phone Signal
15. Abkhaz separatists defect from quadripartite talks
16. Abkhaz security service head leads paramilitary forces to threaten Georgian population in Gali district
17. UN steps up Abkhazia patrols following death of Georgian policeman
18. Georgian-backed Abkhaz authorities call for international administration of Gali
19. Peacekeepers, UN concerned about Georgia-Abkhazia tensions
20. To cross Orsantia and Ganmukhuri bridges costs RUS 100 (GEL 6.7)
21. Restoration of Bedia Monastery will begin in 2007
22. Georgian population of Gali demands UN police sub-units to conflict zone
23. UNOMIG condemns attacks in Abkhazia
24. Legitimate govt.’s proposal
25. Protesting truckers may be removed by force
26. Russia refuses to let in Georgian tangerine trucks
27. Head of Russia’s North Ossetia promises to lift blockade of major highway
28. CanArgo Energy Corporation: Operations Update
29. BP Ignores Warnings About Potential Leaks in Caspian Pipeline
30. A lot accomplished in three short years
31. Evaluation of the work of Georgian authorities in 2006
32. The Patriarch of Georgia: mass media is being used for implementing non-national worldview in Georgian society
33. Meeting of MPs and managers of print media on tax privileges ended without success
34. New political party to be formed
35. Opposition Considers Alliance
36. Regional administration officials arrested
37. Ecological damage caused by the sea pollution is 249 thousand GEL
38. Chairman of the new office presented
39. Labors protest joining of villages to capital
40. Irish goodwill goes a long way: Success in Canada prompts businessman to help overseas peers
41. Rare types of trees are at risk of extinction
42. City Hall streamlines services
43. Tbilisi Municipality grants assistance to socially unprotected layers of population
44. Analysts blame government interference on lack of economic growthGeorgian women work abroad as unskilled labourers

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Jonathan Kulick, Ph.D., Director of Studies, Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies, 3a Chitadze, Tbilisi 0108, Georgia (Republic), jonathan.kulick@gfsis.org, office: +995 32 47 35 55, mobile: +995 95 33 33 40, USA voicemail: 310.928.6814