WILL THE UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY DISCUSS THE PROTRACTED CONFLICTS ON GUAM TERRITORY?

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25.07.2007 15:50

A draft resolution on protracted conflicts in GUAM countries may
be put forward for consideration by the UN General Assembly at the
beginning of September in Kiev. The next meeting of the national
coordinators of the member countries of GUAM (Georgia, Ukraine,
Azerbaijan, Moldova) was scheduled for Kiev in the first decade of
September, the Secretary General of GUAM, Valeri Chechelashvili,
reported from Kiev, Trend reports.

The project of the resolution regarding protracted conflicts in GUAM,
in particular, Transniestria Nagorno-Karabakh, and Georgian-Abkhazian
conflicts was developed and included into the agenda of the UN
General Assembly at the end of 2006. Later, the representatives of
GUAM removed the issue from agenda.

"The project on protracted conflicts was included in the agenda of the
UN General Assembly by the initiative of GUAM and the work on it is
in progress," Chechelashvili said. "We are coordinating the project
with our partners. The text was coordinated between us, but each of
the counties goes on with the work as much as possible in order to
mobilize our partners’ support in favor of the resolution," he noted.

Speaking on the reports on putting the project forward for discussion
by the UN General Assembly, the Secretary General said that the
decision has not been made by all parties yet.

As an alternative to CIS the four post-Soviet republics Georgia,
Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, established the GUAM format in
1999 during the summit of the head of state of the European Union
member-countries in Strasbourg. The summit of GUAM in Baku was the
second one which focused on the prospects of the development of the
organization both in the sphere of economy and security.