PLENARY SESSIONS OPENED
Daily Georgian Times
Feb 12 2008
Georgia
Lawmakers will have to follow a strictly determined agenda and specific
regime to approve the draft laws until parliamentary elections in
time. The plenary sessions opened in parliament today.
The MPs are to discuss the draft laws including the government’s new
financial package ‘on Global fiscal sector and competitive abilities’,
constitutional amendments which stipulates that the new parliament
must declare confidence to the government. Lawmakers will also discuss
amendments to the election code.
After the opening ceremony MP Lado Papava spoke about the political
threats which the country may face if Georgian Railways ltd is sold
off. Papava spoke about the similar act in Armenia, where the railway
was purchased by Russia for 30+20 years and today the Armenian Railways
is called South Caucasian railway.
‘The contract clarifies the subject which is most of all interested in
the purchase of management in Georgian railways and how dangerous it
may become for the country,’ Papava said and added that Georgia’s role
as a transit country would be reduced in case the company is sold off.
Parliament Speaker Nino Burjanadze said the legislative body of the
government would pay serious attention to the process of railway
privatization in order to avoid any political problems.