Georgia News Digest 03-07-07

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. Abkhaz Official Shrugs Off Western Criticism Of Elections
2. Russian General Urges Steps To Neutralize Threat Posed By Us Missile Defence [excerpt]
3. 'No request' for American radar in Georgia says minister
4. Anti-missile system on the radar…
5. Georgia relations with Russia not best, but more predictable-FM
6. Tbilisi to independently settle Abkhaz, S Ossetia problems-FM
7. HEU Smuggling Sting Raises Security Concerns
8. Georgia, Moldova And US Urge Russia To Stop Aiding Separatists
9. Self-Styled Republics Call For UN Action Against Georgia, Moldova
10. Tbilisi integration in NATO, EU to strengthen its independence-FM
11. Kazakhs Mull $1bln refinery in Batumi
12. Nongovernmental Organizations Demand That TV Station “Channel 25” Be Aired by Batumi Cable TV Network
13. Kazakh companies conducting active investment policy in Georgia
14. Georgian, Kazakh presidents tout cooperation
15. Kazakh Leader Says Caucasian Transport Corridor Important
16. Kazakhstan Supports Georgia's Territorial Integrity, Joint Document Says
17. Peter Semneby: "EU greets Baku-Tbilisi-Akhalkalaki-Kars railway project"
18. Georgia, Azerbaijan Discuss Border Delimitation
19. Russia refuses to recognize election in breakaway Georgian region
20. Kyiv: Abkhazia parliamentary elections illegitimate – diplomat
21. NATO Rejects Abkhaz Elections
22. Elections In Abkhazia Proceed Illegally -- Lithuanian Diplomat
23. State Department Issues Statement On Elections In Georgia's Abkhazia Region
24. Abkhaz Official Shrugs Off Western Criticism Of Elections
25. Abkhazia ‘unemotional’ about Western response to parlt polls – FM
26. Support of Abkhaz polls depends on local residents - Russian foreign minister
27. Abkhaz officials defiant after international condemnation of polls
28. Half-bake elections
29. Abkhaz Paper Notes Opposition Gains, "Low Turnout" In Elections
30. Abkhazian Side Is Not About To Yield
31. Abkhazia releases three Georgian fishermen
32. Georgian police try to stop JCC South Ossetian co-leader
33. Tbilisi Claims to Offer ‘New Plan’ for S. Ossetia Resolution
34. Controversy at the Tskhinvali University
35. Georgia, South Ossetian Negotiators Meet
36. Azerbaijani Journalist: Murderers of Editor of “Monitor” Magazine are Walking the Tbilisi Streets
37. New revelations in taped conversation controversy
38. Badri Patarkatsishvili: “Imedi” Is not a Government’s Enemy
39. Tycoon Says He Has Left Georgia
40. Two men jailed for killing Milan player's brother
41. Freedom for IDPs Costs 3 000 GEL
42. Property registration process simplified
43. Construction boom slows
44. Opposition says parliament suffers from legislative-o-mania
45. Poll says government are reformers, but not humanitarian
46. Georgian parliament to discuss forestry policy and strategy
47. First president of Georgia to be reburied at Sameba Cathedral
48. What is the difference between March 3 and March 8? [excerpt]

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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