GEORGIAN PARLIAMENT APPROVES PRESIDENTIAL RULE IN ADJARIA
By empty (5/6/2004 issue of the CACI Analyst)
By 137 votes in favor and one against, deputies approved on 6 May a resolution empowering Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili to dismiss the parliament and government of the Adjar Autonomous Republic and schedule new elections. Following a protracted standoff with Saakashvili, Aslan Abashidze stepped down late the previous day as Adjar Supreme Council chairman and left Georgia for Moscow. Georgian Prosecutor-General Irakli Okruashvili said on 6 May that the guarantees of immunity that the Georgian authorities extended to Abashidze and members of his entourage will not be revoked.Visit also
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