GUAM
May 22, 2010By Yurii SHCHERBAK, Ukraine’s ex-Ambassador to the US and Canada Then Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and the elders, which were come to him... “But this is your hour, and the power of darkness”. Luke...
Yanukovych’s election opens up Crimean separatist threat
March 02, 2010By Taras Kuzio Viktor Yanukovych’s inauguration as Ukrainian president on February 25 forced him to face the fact that the Party of Regions that he leads, has re-opened the Pandora’s Box of Crimean separatism. National Institute of Strategic...
Viktor Yanukovich: Importance of GUAM has been lost
February 04, 2010Viktor Yanukovich, one of the two contenders to the presidential seat in Ukraine, told the press yesterday that GUAM, a regional organization made up of Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova, "has lost its importance in a sense." Mr. Yanukovich...
Ukraine, Moldova ask for EU help in creating Euroregion
December 22, 2009Ukrainian Foreign Minister Petro Poroshenko and his Moldovan counterpart Iurie Leanca have signed a joint appeal for the European Union to use the financial mechanisms of the Eastern Partnership initiative to create the Dniester Euroregion, the Interfax...
Russian Military Planners Thinking About a Post-CIS Eurasia
October 21, 2009By Paul Goble In the clearest indication yet that senior officials in Moscow are worried about what will happen if, as seems likely, the Commonwealth of Independent States dissolves, an article in the journal of the Russian military-industrial...
Is Moldova About to Leave GUAM?
January 29, 2009by Paul Goble Vienna, January 28 – Moldovan President Vladimir Voronin said yesterday that GUAM, the organization linking Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and his own country, is a grouping which has proved to be ineffectual and that he was...
GUAM: background, organization’s future and Ukraine’s role
October 16, 2008By Vlad Spânu* The initial purpose of establishing GUAM (the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development), started by Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, and Moldova (named after the initial letters of each country), was to focus the new group...
Analysis: GUAM shows its resilience at Batumi Summit
July 09, 2008Author: Vladimir Socor The GUAM Summit just held in Batumi (see EDM, July 7) demonstrated that Georgia and Azerbaijan compose GUAM’s solid core; that Ukraine’s governing political forces are committed to GUAM while the evenly matched opposition...
Vladimir Voronin says creation of GUAM peacekeeping force is inexpedient
July 08, 2008President Vladimir Voronin believes that the establishment of the peacekeeping force of GUAM is an inexpedient move. “The point is that there are no economic constituents in GUAM for this purpose. They began to think what else to include to...
Moscow hopes Moldova will withdraw from GUAM, but will not join NATO
May 30, 2008Moscow hopes that the Republic of Moldova will withdraw from GUAM at a certain moment and will never join NATO but will come closer to Russia,” the chairman of the Russian State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots Alexei...