FROM THE EDITOR

Jemal Inaishvili

In the last issue we offered our readers information about Tbilisi meeting of Asia-Pacific region’s chambers of commerce and the Asian business forum.

I think that it was a very important event in the country’s life and a necessary one for business and investment environment. This is the last and concluding issue of our magazine this year. That is why we considered it right to publish information on the main parameters of our country’s economy dynamics, as well as on the results of the world economy and the prospects for 2006. We hope that our forecasts and drawing attention to the economic trends of the coming year will be of use to the government’s economic bloc and business for optimal planning in the coming year.
At the same time, in our editorial we offer you to familiarize yourselves with the situation existing in the communications business. This is a rather growing and delicate sphere. We are trying to regulate its reformation, but it seems to me that we have not fully considered a number of issues and peculiarities, and we shall once again try to draw your attention to this service with which every Georgian is directly concerned, and which is a subject of increased interest on the part of foreign investors, so that together with you take a look at what is developing in this very closed sphere, where world technologies and Georgia are moving to, what is going on in the tariff sphere, and when communications will become cheaper for an ordinary or corporate consumer, and owing to what.
We also present an analysis of problems in the railway transport sector, and peculiarities of this mode of transport.
Interested debates have started in the government concerning creation of a new regulator in banking-and-finance sphere, in particular concerning abolishing of the National Bank’s function of supervising over other banks. SOS! The question is, how thought-out this reform is, how it fits with the terms, what experience there is in this sphere, and whether the horror of chaos is in store for one of the most stable sector of our economy or not – what the government prepares for the National Bank.
We traditionally offer you accounting and tax bulletins to render assistance to small and medium-scale business, scientific rubric, and collage of statistical figures. And for bomonde – very interesting materials about Bermuda triangle and this mystery of the Caribbean Sea.
I wish you merry Christmas and happy New Year, and let me frankly tell you, my dear readers, that everything will be all right. For that we should be together and make our future. Today Georgia has unprecedented prospects.
Merry Christmas and happy New Year!