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	GUAM - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Until May 5, 2005, the organisation was known as GUUAM due to the membership of Uzbekistan, which withdrew from the organisation in 2005.
		A summit in Yalta in 6-7 June, 2001, was accompanied by the signing of GUUAM's charter, which formalized the organization.
		The most recent summit of GUUAM happened in Chişinău, Moldova, on April 22, 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/GUUAM (670 words)

	Build Ukraine
		A clear achievement of the GUUAM summit in Yalta, Ukraine, on June 6-7, 2001 was the fact that the summit took place at all after being postponed three times.
		The heads of states of GUUAM met during the summit in New York on September 6, 2000 to discuss multilateral cooperation within the entity, identify obstacles to cooperation and agree on key efforts aimed at overcoming them.
		GUUAM will be chaired by each of the member states in the alphabetical order for one year.
	www.artukraine.com /buildukraine/guuam.htm (2071 words)

	EurasiaNet Eurasia Insight - GUUAM's Loss is Russia's Gain
		GUUAM, the geopolitical bloc that groups Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova, is reeling, and appears close to expiring.
		GUUAM’s organizational delays have been largely attributed to a "crowded working schedule" of Azerbaijani President Heidar Aliyev, who is struggling to find a political arrangement with Armenia on Nagorno-Karabakh’s status.
		GUUAM additionally represents a potential challenge to Moscow’s own efforts at organizing an economic bloc of states, the Eurasian Economic Union.
	www.eurasianet.org /departments/insight/articles/eav041801.shtml (972 words)

	8.4 GUUAM Workshop - Georgian Ambassador Tedo Japaridze (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GUUAM's birth mother is the CFE [Conventional Armed Forces in Europe] negotiations, and its foster mother is NATO.
		The development of GUUAM itself is evolutionary, beginning in spring 1996, when the delegations from the four states laid the groundwork for the consultations within the GUUAM format on the CFE flank issues, and evolving naturally and without any coercion.
		The GUUAM States are responsible for laying the groundwork for the reversal of this situation.
	www.azer.com /aiweb/categories/magazine/84_folder/84_articles/84_guuam.html (2396 words)

	Pravda.RU:The GUUAM organisation is most likely dead than alive, is that so? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Analysts explain Tashkent's decision to suspend its participation in the GUUAM organisation by the intensification of its relations with Russia and China within the framework of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation.
		The communique on the creation of the GUUAM association was signed in October 1997 at the summit of the heads of state of the European Union in Strasbourg by the Presidents of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldavia.
		In April 1999, at the G-4 summit in Washington in the context of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of NATO, the decision was taken to admit Uzbekistan to this organisation.
	newsfromrussia.com /cis/2002/07/18/32800_.html (393 words)

	Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GUUAM is a regional grouping of five states which includes the Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, Ukraine and the Republic of Uzbekistan, founded as a political, economic and strategic alliance aimed at overcoming common risks and threats and strengthening their independence and sovereignty.
		According to the results of the GUUAM meeting Washington Declaration was adopted, where the Presidents noted that cooperation within the GUUAM is not directed against third countries or a group of countries and membership is open to any country which subscribes to the fundamental principles and goals of the GUUAM.
		GUUAM countries agreed to strengthen and improve the mechanisms of consultations and coordination of actions within the framework of international organizations such as UN, OSCE, CE, NATO and EU and to promote actively the practice of joint initiatives and statements at various levels.
	www.mfa.gov.az /eng/international/organizations/guuam.shtml (1765 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - What does GUUAM mean for Caspian energy?
		Consequently, it is not issues of audience-targeting that explain the variation among their points of view.) Thus, Ukraine and Moldova appear to see GUUAM as a "geo-economic" formation and the harmonization of trade legislation as the main task at present; Georgia, understandably, sees it as nothing less than a "strategic" formation.
		Assuming that those attending the meeting of GUUAM representatives in Kyiv set for the spring of 2001 follow through on their expressed intention of adopting a common charter with some intergovernmental organs, GUUAM will become an international organization with its own secretariat and some other bodies but with no statutory supranational authority.
		GUUAM may in the end turn into a kind of Central European Initiative for the countries concerned, coordinating technical details of infrastructure projects with such international financial institutions as the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/news/ntc10451.htm (931 words)

	ISCIP - Perspective
		GUUAM, which was created as an instrument for restoring the ancient Silk Road trade route and as a response to revisions in the CFE treaty, (5) had indicated that it sought stronger security cooperation with NATO.
		Since the establishment of GUUAM in 1997, the main idea was to replace the nebulous concept of CIS cooperation with an alternate organization which could be more functional and based on the priorities of the countries involved.
		For instance, Uzbekistan is wavering in its commitment to GUUAM because of the threat of terrorist attacks and anti-governmental Islamic movements.
	www.bu.edu /iscip/vol11/kakachia.html (2741 words)

	BCSIA - Publication - Military Cooperation between Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova in the GUUAM ...
		In the words of one of its ambassadors, GUUAM is "a strategic alliance of countries with common problems and common threat perceptions."(1) GUUAM countries are bound by a desire to resist the perceived threat of Russian expansionism in the region.
		GUUAM was established with the express purpose of forging close institutional ties with the West, which, in the military realm, means NATO.
		GUUAM countries will-and already do-base their policy vis-Ã -vis Moscow partly on the extent of the support they expect to receive from the United States and Europe.
	bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu /publication.cfm?ctype=paper&item_id=86 (2144 words)

	Statement
		GUUAM strongly supports the need to strengthen the United Nations as the major Forum for international cooperation and achieving collective decisions on the issues of common concern and its ability to deal with them.
		GUUAM welcomes the intention of the Secretary-General to establish a High-Level Panel of eminent personalities to examine current challenges to peace and security and to provide before the next GA session the recommendations on the ways of strengthening the UN response to them.
		While two of the GUUAM states – Georgia and the Republic of Moldova are members of the World Trade Organization, others – Ukraine, the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Republic of Uzbekistan are still in the process of accession.
	www.un.int /ukraine/Ukr-UN/GenAs/policy/2003/08102003.htm (1421 words)

	AzEmbVienna
		GUUAM (Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova) Group was formally founded as a political, economic and strategic alliance designed to strengthen the independence and sovereignty of these former Soviet Union republics.
		There are joint decisions of the GUUAM States to promote development and improvement, at different levels, of mechanisms of multilateral cooperation in the framework of GUUAM, including at the level of executive and legislative branches, business circles, non-governmental and humanitarian organizations and mass media.
		The GUUAM countries also agreed to strengthen and improve the mechanisms of consultations and coordination of actions within the framework of international organizations, and to promote actively the practice of joint statements at various levels.
	www.azembvienna.at /en/guuam.htm (1153 words)

	Assembly of Turkish American Associations-Spotlight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GUUAM's role as a link between the areas of Black Sea and Caspian Sea is, without doubt, just another one of the numerous advantages it can provide in terms of cooperation.
		My understanding and conviction is that the GUUAM area, also due to the group's broad inter-regional nature and commonality of interests, might prove to be one of the crucial fields where the competing interests of the European Union, the United States, Russia, and also of other powers meet.
		One of the major factors defining how vocal the GUUAM states can be about their plans for the future of the group is the problem of regional conflicts, be it existing or potential, which, unfortunately, represents another aspect of commonality for them.
	www.ataa.org /spotlight/pashayev_jl12.html (1011 words)

	GUUAM -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A summit in (A resort city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; scene of the Allied conference between Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt in 1945) Yalta in 6-7 June, 2001, was accompanied by the signing of GUUAM's charter, which formalized the organization.
		An annual meeting occurs between the Presidents of GUUAM member states in (A resort city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; scene of the Allied conference between Churchill and Stalin and Roosevelt in 1945) Yalta.
		The plan proposed to GUUAM by the United States crosses both the (A sea between Europe and Asia; a popular resort area of eastern Europeans) Black Sea and the (A large saltwater lake between Iran and Russia fed by the Volga River; the largest inland body of water in the world) Caspian Sea.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/g/gu/guuam4.htm (389 words)

	GUUAM Summit took place in Yalta (Ukraine) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cooperation within the GUUAM is based on the universally recognized principles and norms of international law, in particular, on the respect for sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and non-interference in domestic affairs of the Member States.
		The issues of implementation of agreements within the GUUAM are considered and the proposals on further development and deepening of the cooperation for consideration at the Meetings of Heads of State are also prepared at the sessions of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs.
		The Yalta GUUAM Charter fixes the principal directions of the forum, defines the objectives and principles of the multilateral cooperation, and establishes the format and periodicity the meetings among the Heads of State of the Member States.
	www.ukrainaemb.se /press_rel/pr13_06_01.htm (1150 words)

	12 September 2001 Central Asia - Caucasus Analyst
		BACKGROUND: The formation and consolidation of GUUAM is unique in Eurasia for the simple reason that it is a voluntary union of five states acting in an independent manner.
		Therefore, western support for GUUAM is crucial as an endorsement of what the group represents and as an encouragement for the opportunities it opens.
		While the group was indeed born from the efforts of member-states to oppose excessive concentrations of troops on their territories and in their vicinity during the CFE negotiations in 1996, all GUUAM countries recognize Russia’s importance and key role in the region.
	www.cornellcaspian.com /analyst/010912_H3.htm (937 words)

	OUR CENTURY
		The ministers underscored the necessity of soonest completion of the agreement regarding the projects on temporary envision on GUUAM Information Office and on the Observer’s status in GUUAM, expressed the GUUAM states’ readiness to initiate the agreement on GUUAM free trade zone on November 28th in Tbilisi with further and soonest signing.
		Touching the actual problem of the world policy, the heads of delegations were unanimous in the necessity of all-lateral struggle against terrorism, marked the connection of terrorism with aggressive separatism, extremism, organized crime, illegal drugs circulation and illegal trade of weapons.
		In this relation, the GUUAM ministries expressed their anxiety with the lack of progress in settlement of the conflicts in Pridnestrovye, Nagorny Karabakh, Abkhazia, and also the situation in Georgia.
	ourcentury.media-az.com /39/news.htm (1046 words)

	Pravda.RU:Azeri, Georgian, Moldovan, Ukrainian presidents to discuss future of GUUAM inter-state union
		According to the GUUAM information office in Kiev, the summit will be held with the participation of the Azeri, Georgian, Moldovan and Ukrainian presidents.
		He said that those who proposed to establish the GUUAM "missed something in the very beginning." Voronin was also puzzled by a number of procedural aspects of the summit.
		The previous GUUAM summit last October resulted in the adoption of the GUUAM Charter, which specified the objectives and officially formalised this structure.
	newsfromrussia.com /cis/2002/07/19/32821_.html (530 words)

	Pravda.RU How GUUAM turned into GUAM
		GUUAM was rather a company of friends where Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma liked to feel his superiority.
		Later, Moldovian President Voronin was persuaded that GUUAM was not contradicting the CIS, and Moldova remained member of the organization.
		In fact, Uzbekistan’s withdrawal from GUUAM probably demonstrates the tendencies of international progress that were clearly outlined in May – June 2002, especially in the regional sphere.
	english.pravda.ru /cis/2002/06/17/30486.html (2317 words)

	Press Releases, Statements & Transcripts - Embassy of the U.S. in Georgia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The United States and the GUUAM states stand united against terrorism and together resolutely denounced the barbaric acts of terrorism that were committed against the United States on September 11, 2001.
		Already, the individual states of GUUAM are working closely with the U.S. on combating terrorism, and have agreed on the crucial importance of mutual cooperation, especially, in security of transport corridors, preventing drug trafficking, illegal weapon trade and migration.
		The United States and the GUUAM states are determined to contribute to the fulfillment of international obligations as enshrined in the United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1368, 1373 and 1377, (2001) as well as UN General Assembly Resolution 56/1, and will act in conformity with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
	georgia.usembassy.gov /releases/release20011116.html (502 words)

	The Jamestown Foundation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The five presidents' statement asserted that GUUAM is "not directed against any particular country or group of countries"--an assurance intended for Russia and its loyalists in the CIS, particularly Armenia, whom the GUUAM countries would be ill-advised to abandon to Moscow's military embrace.
		The GUUAM presidents pledged to reinforce cooperation among their countries in international organizations and forums, specifically those concerned with international security and conflict resolution.
		Among the other members of GUUAM, Ukraine is actively involved in military cooperation with NATO under the Charter for Distinctive Partnership; and has signed during the NATO summit an agreement to turn the Yavoriv military range into an exercise center for troops of NATO and partner countries.
	www.jamestown.org /email-to-friend.php?article_id=3653 (2511 words)

	Text: U.S., Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Moldova on Terrorism
		Already, the individual states that comprise GUUAM are working closely with the U.S. on combating terrorism, and have agreed on the crucial importance of mutual cooperation, especially in ensuring the security of transport corridors and preventing drug trafficking, illegal weapons trade and illegal migration.
		During their meeting, the Foreign Ministers of the GUUAM states and the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs explored possibilities for increased cooperation on counterterrorism between the United States and GUUAM as an important regional organization.
		The United States and the GUUAM member states are determined to contribute to the fulfillment of international obligations as enshrined in United Nations Security Council Resolutions 1368, 1373 and 1377 (2001) as well as UN General Assembly Resolution 56/1, and will act in conformity with the principles of the Charter of the United Nations.
	www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/peace/archives/2001/november/111604.html (399 words)

	Crosswalk.com - Russia Forges Post-Soviet Economic Union
		The CES is seen here as an attempt to counterbalance U.S. influence, and in particular the group known as GUUAM - an acronym for the former Soviet states of Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan and Moldova.
		GUUAM has been dormant for some time, and its attempts to make a comeback have been prompted in part by the U.S. cooperation began to accelerate in December 2002 with a program to develop trade and improve border and customs control to combat organized crime and narcotics trafficking.
		GUUAM states have supported a trans-Caucasus transportation corridor, known as TRASECA, which would link countries in the Caspian Basin and Black Sea regions, bypassing Russia.
	www.crosswalk.com /news/1264837.html (670 words)

	GUUAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		GU(U)AM (Cyrillic: ГУ(У)АМ;) is a regional organization of five CIS states: Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, and Moldova.
		The last summit of GUUAM happened in Chişinău, Moldova, on April 22, 2005.
		There are eight working groups, for the following topics: power engineering; transport; trade and economics; information science and telecommunications; culture; science and education; tourism; the struggle against terrorism, organized crime and dissemination of drugs.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/G/GUUAM.htm (693 words)

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