Azerbaijan, Baku / Тrend corr S. Aghayeva / The heads of the member countries of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM ( Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova) will meet in Vilnius within the framework of the Energy Summit to be held from 10 - 11 October. The suggestion was made by the national coordinators of GUAM during the meeting of the GUAM Council of National Coordinators (CNC) held in Baku from 20 to 21 September, according to Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry.
The meeting of GUAM countries' heads will be dedicated to the 10th Anniversary of the organization.
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 presidents of the European Union countries in Strasbourg. In 1999, Uzbekistan joined the organization and left it in 4 years. In 2006, at the first summit of the organization in Kiev it was decided to announce GUAM an international organization with a new name of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM.