Azerbaijani president: GUAM is a powerful alliance with constructive contents
Summit of the presidents of GUAM member-countries started in Baku. In his welcoming address Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev announced that the alliance of the four countries has been gaining force each year and now one can say that the GUAM has turned into a powerful union filled with effective contents.
According to him, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Ukraine and Moldova have many problems in common. The countries are united and connected with common tasks - integration to European and Euro-Atlantic institutions. "Establishment of GUAM military forces is a positive thing too, taking into account that separatists have breached territorial integrity in three countries of the four GUAM members and effort of international mediators is not enough to liberated the occupied territories," Aliyev said.
The sides are expected to sign four documents: a protocol on cooperation between the GUAM countries in culture, two treaties and the Baku Declaration that will be the basic political document. It will give a political assessment to GUAM activities after its first summit and an action plan till the next summit planned to be held in Tbilisi in 2008. The declaration will include establishment of GUAM peacekeeping battalion that will provide security in the member-countries. It also envisages implementation of a decision made at the last year summit to turn GUAM into an international regional organization.
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