This issue contains the following articles: The Abkhaz Want To Make A Border At The Enguri River By Irakli Aladashvili, covers a confrontation question which is connected with several villages of the Zugdidi and Tzalendjikha districts - Khurcha, Ganmukhuri, Kalaghali, Pakhulani - close neighbours of the Gali district (Abkhazia) villages. It Is No Good Kidding The Military By Irakli Aladashvili reports about an interesting seminar on distribution and the use of defence resources held in the Krtzanisi governmental residence not long ago. American Experience Of Civil-Military Relations And Our Problems By Temur Chachanidze (MOD) reviews a seminar held in Tbilisi from September 21 to 24 by the centre for civil-military relations of the Monterey high naval school containing Lectures by American experts were focused on such significant issues as civil-military relations in western countries, military professionalism, the role and mission of armed forces examined in the case of the united states, mass media and the army, strategy planning in democratic countries, developing a draft defence budget, etc.

Issue contains also Military Chronicle, which hilights the problems of Conflict zones - The Russian Peacekeeping Force (RPF) in Abkhazia, The Army Building, The Army Life, Visits, Negotiations, Co-operation, Miscellany. 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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