Georgia News Digest 03-23-07

A service of the Georgian Foundation for Strategic and International Studies

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1. audio: Burjanadze: Georgia’s Path to Democracy and Transatlantic Integration
audio at www.csis.org/media/csis/events/070320_georgia.m3u
The Caucasus Initiative of the Russia and Eurasia Program hosted Nino Burjanadze, Chairwoman of Georgia's Parliament on March 20, 2007. More than three years after the Rose Revolution, Georgia continues to consolidate its democratic institutions and deepen its cooperation with NATO, despite ongoing challenges of Georgian-Russian relations and internal conflicts. This event offers a timely update on Georgia's domestic and foreign policy goals and challenges.

2. Saakashvili’s Speech, NATO and Good Intentions
3. President's Speech: Hit or Miss?
4. Post-Soviet Secessionist Leaders Worried By Russia’s Kosovo Policy
5. All Paths to Separatists’ Independence Go Through Georgia
6. What Threats Should We Expect from Military Radars Installed In Georgia: Leader of "Georgia’s Greens"
7. Georgian MPs Differ On Significance Of Kodori Militia Leader's Statement
8. Abkhaz Leader Visits Moscow
9. Another visit to Georgian-held gorge planned in Abkhazia "bombing" probe
10. Abkhazian Security Council Secretary Stanislav Lakoba: "Georgia needs a Russian roof" [excerpt]
11. Georgia, S Ossetia fail to agree on press release
12. "Pentagon attempts to launch an arms race in the Caucasus" — South Ossetian press
13. Azeri Company Set To Invest 20m Dollars In Georgian Oil Infrastructure
14. Focusing on Trans-Caspian Pipes to Diversify Supplies
15. Kazakhstan Extends Helping Hand To Georgia
16. Burjanadze Wants to Enhance Parliament’s Oversight Functions
17. Georgia Creates Army Reserves: The president wants the capacity to call up 100,000 men
18. Ahmed Zakayev to Attend Gamsakhurdia’s Funeral
19. Working Groups of National Minorities Council Elaborated Recommendations for Mass Media
20. TV Company "Imedi" Plans to File a Lawsuit If Its Journalists are Physically Abused again
21. Guilty-Not-guilty and "Telephone Went Wrong"
22. Resistant Tuberculosis’s Treatment in Zugdidi Hospital
23. "I Know I Have Right to Life"
24. Victim of Family Violence Demands To Return Her Child
25. Watson fears Georgian pair could be out to prove point
26. Patriarch's office releases two statements

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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