Friday, 6 January 2012Representatives of GUAM Parliamentary Assembly, Baltic Assembly, Assembly of the Benelux countries and the "Visegrad four" will discuss the ways of resolving "frozen conflicts" at the international conference in Baku, MP Elton Mammadov, the head of Azerbaijani parliamentary delegation to GUAM told Trend.
"The chairmanship of GUAM PA will move from Moldova to Ukraine this year," Mammadov said. "The date of international conference in Baku will depend on Ukraine. Most likely, it will be in summer."
According to Mammadov, holding a meeting to discuss ways of resolving the so-called "frozen conflicts" has been included in the agenda of the Bureau meeting of the GUAM PA.
Holding such a meeting involving of four above-mentioned organizations is aimed to expand their cooperation.
The international conference took place involving the GUAM PA, the Baltic Assembly and Assembly of the Benelux countries in Baku on Oct. 10-11, 2010. The conference under the motto "Establishing relationships across borders" mulled energy security, political stability in the GUAM countries and the Baltic region, integration and development of nanotechnology.
GUAM was established by post-Soviet countries in 1997 during the EU presidential summit in Strasbourg. In 1999, Uzbekistan joined the organization, and left four years later. A decision was made to announce GUAM as an international organization under the new name, "Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM," at the organization's first summit in Kiev in 2006.
The Visegrad Group was formed on Feb. 15, 1991 at a high-level meeting in Visegrad, Hungary. Four countries - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic - are members of the Visegrad Group. |
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