BEZHUASHVILI: INITIATIVE ON CONSIDERING FROZEN CONFLICTS AT UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN GUAM COUNTRIES HAS NOT RIPENED

Regnum, Russia
Dec 6 2006

GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) countries’ initiative
to discuss issues of frozen conflicts in the GUAM countries’
territories at the 61st session of the UN General Assembly, Georgia’s
Foreign Minister Gela Bezhuashvili announced at a news conference in
Tbilisi on December 6.

According to him, GUAM foreign ministers decided at their meeting
in Brussels to postpone this issue from being introduced to the
UN scheduled for December 7. "The issue is on the agenda of the
61st General Assembly and it will not be taken away from it by next
September, so we shall put in on the agenda as soon as it has ripened
and is completely ready," Bezhuashvili said noting that GUAM’s aim was
not just discussion of the issue, but adoption of effective decisions,
Trend reports.

Initially, consideration of the frozen conflicts issue in the territory
of GUAM (Nagorno Karabakh, Georgian-Abkhaz, Georgian-Ossetian and
Transdnestr conflicts) was scheduled to take place in New York on
December 4, and then it was postponed for December 7. The new point
on prolonged conflicts in the GUAM territory was introduced to the
agenda of the 61st General Assembly in September. 16 countries voted
for putting the issue on the agenda including Latvia, Turkey, Great
Britain and the USA. 15 countries voted against, including Armenia,
Greece and Russia.