GUAM PA adopts two documents with focus on regional conflicts
By Jamila Babayeva
The GUAM Parliamentary Assembly adopted a communique and statement at its meeting Tbilisi on December 3.
The documents reflected the main goals of GUAM member states, putting a special focus on regional conflicts.
"The documents state the support to the Eastern Partnership programme and emphasize that no single state has a right to intervene in the choice of sovereign and independent countries," Chairman of GUAM PA Zurab Abashidze said.
A significant part in the documents is given to the conflicts in the territory of GUAM member states.
"The documents condemn the presence of any country's armed forces in the territory of another states. Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Moldova suffer this problem," Abashidze said.
In addition, installing wire fence along the occupied line in the territory of Georgia was also included in the documents upon Georgia's demand,
Armenia occupied over 20 percent of Azerbaijan's internationally recognized territory, including Nagorno-Karabakh and seven adjacent regions, after laying territorial claims against its South Caucasus neighbor that had caused a lengthy war in the early 1990s.
The UN Security Council has adopted four resolutions on Armenia's withdrawal from the Azerbaijani territory, but they have not been enforced to this day.
GUAM is a regional organization between Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova. It was renamed the 'Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM' in 2006.