The issue includes articles: WESTERN DIRECTION RETAINS GREAT IMPORTANCE by Irakli Aladashvili is focused on another territorial command of the MoD - Western Direction Troops (WDT) created in the summer 1998 under General Zaur Uchadze, while Colonel Sandro Elbakidze. ABOUT GEORGIA'S ECONOMIC SECURITY by Archil Melikadze contains the plan to develop Georgia's economic security - analysis of INTERNAL ECONOMIC FACTORS AND PROCESSES, Monopolies, Public goods,Uneven regional development, Instability of public finances, Instability of banking and monetary systems, Real sector of economy, Strategic industries, Shadow economy, Social factors, Political factors, INTEGRATION INTO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC SYSTEM.

The Issue also includes Military Chronicle which highlights special events, conflict zones, army building and army life, visits, negotiations, co-operation, state security question, attitude of the Georgian military establishment to the Kosovo crisis and other question. The chronicle based on the information from the Georgian media. The issue followed with the Digest of the Georgian Press.

Published by: the Center for Civil-Military Relations and Security Studies; Caucasian Institute for Peace, Democracy and Development, Tbilisi, Georgia; Co-financed by: the European Community, TACIS Democracy Program and the European-Caucasian Economical Consulting. Editorial board: David Darchiashvili, Tamara Pataraia, Guram Dumbadze, Irakli Aladashvili.

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