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    UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT CALLS FOR ACTIVE ROLE OF GUAM

    Xinhua, China
    2008-07-02 03:13:31

    Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko asked GUAM, a regional
    organization of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, on Tuesday to
    be more active in regional affairs, according to reports reaching here.

    "The frozen conflicts in Georgia, Azerbaijan and Moldova, are factors
    of destabilization, so we should intensify their peaceful settlement
    on principles of territorial integrity," Itar-Tass quoted Yushchenko
    as saying at the GUAM summit in Batumi, Georgia.

    "So far, the Abkhazia, Ossetian and Karabakh settlement negotiations
    have not been very efficient," he said, referring to Georgian and
    Azerbaijan's breakaway regions.

    Separatist in Abkhazia self-proclaimed independence after bloody
    conflicts with the Georgian government in the 1990s and an uneasy
    ceasefire was monitored by peacekeepers from Russia.

    Armed conflict broke out in the early 1990s between Azerbaijan and
    Armenia over the Nagorno-Karabakh region's status after it declared
    independence, which was not recognized by the international community.

    Nagorno-Karabakh, a northwest region in Azerbaijan, was populated
    mostly by ethnic Armenians. A Russian-brokered ceasefire halted the
    fighting in 1994, but the dispute remains unresolved.

    Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili, Azerbaijani President Ilham
    Aliyev, and delegates from over 20 states, such as Polish President
    Lech Kaczynski, Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus, Czech Foreign
    Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and representatives of the U.S. Department
    of State and Japan, attended the summit held in the Caucasus country.

    The summit "will assess cooperation between GUAM member countries
    and outline cooperation priorities for the next year," GUAM Secretary
    General Valery Chechelashvili said.

    Formed in 1997, GUAM was aimed at promoting economic, trade, transport,
    security and other cooperation among member states.
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