GUAM FUTILITY IS CONDITIONED BY LACK OF ECONOMIC FOUNDATION
PanARMENIAN.Net
15.10.2008 18:29 GMT+04:00
/PanARMENIAN.Net/ Ukraine’s benefit from GUAM is vague, a Ukrainian
political scientist said.
"During Leonid Kuchma’s presidency, GUAM was represented as an economic
structure. However, in 2000, our country rejected the idea of formation
of peacekeeping contingent, thus expressing unwillingness to make
the organization political and anti-Russian," Mikhail Pogrebinsky said.
"The situation changed with the shift of power. The Ukrainian
diplomacy started viewing GUAM as a restraint of Russian interest
in the Caucasus and Black Sea countries as well as in Central
Asia. However, GUAM is mostly a U.S. project and its futility is
conditioned by lack of economic foundation, the Caspian oil," he said,
Analitika.at.ua reports.