GUAM NATIONAL COORDINATORS DISCUSS IMPLEMENTATION OF BAKU DECLARATION

TREND
20.09.2007 12:59:49

Azerbaijan, Baku / corr Trend K.Ramazanova / On 20 September the
national coordinators of the Organization for Democracy and Development
– GUAM – set up discussions in Baku regarding the Baku declaration,
signed during the summit of heads of State of the organization due
in Azerbaijani capital in June, Veleriy Chechelashvili, the GUAM
Secretary-General said before the meeting of the national coordinators.

Representatives from GUAM countries ( Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and
Moldova) should coordinate the agenda of the seventh meeting of the
Council of Foreign Ministers due on 20-21 September in Baku and the
fourth meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers which will take
during the 62nd session of the UN General Assembly in New York. The
sides have not confirmed the date of the Foreign Ministers meeting.

The 62nd session of the UN General Assembly is expected to cover the
results of the ‘frozen conflicts’, worldwide security and development,
issues for preventing armed confrontations and the situation in
occupied territories of Azerbaijan

Earlier the Secretary-General of GUAM, Valeri Chechelashvili, reported
to Trend that a project of resolution on lingering conflicts in GUAM
countries may be put forward for consideration by the UN General
Assembly at the beginning of September. A project for the resolution
regarding lingering conflicts in GUAM, in particular Dniester (
Moldova), Nagorno-Karabakh ( Azerbaijan) and Georgian-Abkhazian was
developed and included in the agenda of the UN General Assembly at
the end of 2006. Later, the representatives of GUAM removed the issue
from the agenda

The four post-Soviet republics Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and
Moldova, established this format in 1997 during the summit of the
head of state of the European Union member-countries in Strasbourg. In
1999 Uzbekistan joined the organization, but left after four years. In
2006 the first summit of the organization in Kiev made a decision to
declare GUAM an international organization and rename ‘Organization
for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM’.