Azerbaijan, Baku /corr. Trend S.Agayeva / Experts from Foreign Ministries of the 'Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM' participating countries came together in Baku on 18 September to coordinate technical issues for the next meeting of the Council of National Coordinators and Council of GUAM Foreign Ministers.
All GUAM countries ( Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) attended the meeting, according to the Foreign Ministry of Azerbaijan. The experts should coordinate the agenda of the seventh meeting of the Council of National Coordinators due on 20-22 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.
As an alternative to the CIS the four post-Soviet republics Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, established the GUAM format in 1999 during a summit of head of state of 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 the economy and security.