TREND News Agency, Azerbaijan
June 23 2007
Meeting of Coordinating Council of Opposition Parties and Movements
of GUAM Member-Countries Held in Baku
Azerbaijan, Baku / corr. Trend S.Ilhamgizi / The meeting of the
Coordinating Council of opposition political parties and movements of
the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM (
Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) was held in Baku on 22
June.
Attending the first meeting the heads of the Social progress parties,
the Rebirth of Ukrainian village, the Ukrainian `Kiev Russia’, the
Labor Party, the Georgian Caucasuseli Party and the Moldovan `Party-
Motherland’. A range of Azerbaijani opposition parties took part at
the meeting.
The issues concerning strengthening of cooperation among parties, the
role of parties in extending relations among GUAM countries, as well
as unification of efforts for fair resolving of frozen conflicts
among GUAM countries were discussed during the meeting.
Ilgar Gasimov, the chairman of the political ` Azerbaijani Way’
movement, noted that cooperation of opposition parties of GUAM did
not direct against anybody.
Natalya Vetrenko, the chairman of the Ukrainian Social Progress
Party, stressed the importance of cooperation of GUAM
member-countries. Vetrenko said about necessity of exchanging
experience among countries. The weakening of economic relations among
the CIS counties is a negative tendency.
Nestan Kirtadzeh, the deputy chairman of the Georgian Laborites Party
(workers), considered the cooperation of parties on election issues
as one of the essential problems.
The deputy chairman of the Union of parties of the Moldova
`Party-Motherland’, Valentin Krilov, paid more attention on
discussion of the conflicts among the GUAM countries.
Mamuk Arishdzeh, the chairman of the Georgian Caucasuseli Party,
touched upon this issue too. He called not to forget the fact that
20% of Azerbaijani territories were occupied by Armenians. According
to Arishdzeh, the Coordinating Council of opposition parties and
movements of GUAM member-countries were ready to make efforts in
resolving the problem.
As a result of meeting a range of documents on Resolution of meeting,
Declaration and appeal to heads of GUAM member-countries were
adopted.