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GUAM is issue of variegated and varied palette of International Organizations – Ukrainian Ambassador in Britain

Politics Materials 20 December 2007 11:10 (UTC +04:00)

Great Britain, London / Trend corr. G.Ahmadova / GUAM ( Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova) Organization for Democracy and Economic Development organization has been prosper recently.

The organization became the element of variegated and varied palette of international organizations, stated the Ukrainian Ambassador in Britain Igor Kharchenko in the interview with the reporter of the Trend agency.

Mr.Kharchenko stated that if the organization function not so active and fruitful as we would like it , but we "feel that interest of our partners and colleges do not fall, but rise."

"The problem of frozen conflicts which remains among the former Soviet Union countries should attract attention of the countries which have this conflict, as well as active and interested participants of international community," Mr.Kharchenko added.

"The fourth countries united in the GUAM call world to approve territorial integrity of states which had some separatist ethnic groups in the territory like the Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan, Abkhazia and Tsinkgval region in Georgia and the Trans-Dniester Region in Moldova.

According to Mr.Kharchenko, as a GUAM member-country Ukraine supports within the framework of the UN and OSCE including of the issue to consider frozen conflicts on the territories of the former Soviet Union countries to the agenda.

" GUAM member-countries are interesting with each other and the organization reached a lot for the recent ten years," Mr.Kharchenko said.

"Touching upon of potential organization, Kharchenko said that he considered GUAM as a very potential and prospective organization.

GUAM was formed by post-Soviet countries in Strasburg in 1997 and named after the initial letters of each of those countries. In April 1999, Uzbekistan also joined, changing the name of the grouping to GUUAM. In 2006, at the summit of the organization in Kiev, the decision to announce GUAM as an international organization with a new name of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development-GUAM was made.

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