Azerbaijani's minister chairs GUAM Ministerial Meeting
Azerbaijan's Foreign Minister Elmar Mammadyarov chaired the 28th GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development Ministerial Meeting in Hamburg on December 8, Azertac reported.
Azerbaijan has assumed the chairmanship of GUAM organization on a rotational basis.
The meeting discussed the ways of developing cooperation, including realizing projects in a variety of fields, developing interparliamentary relations and strengthening economic and trade relations between the member states.
The ministers agreed to set up a working group in the field of youth and sport. The sides also stressed the necessity of expanding the cooperation within international organizations and with partner countries.
Following the event, the next round of “GUAM-Japan” meeting was held.
The GUAM format was created by the post-Soviet states in 1997 during the summit of heads of states of the European Union in Strasbourg. In 1999, Uzbekistan joined the format and four years later withdrew. In 2006, Ukraine and Azerbaijan announced plans to further increase the GUAM member relations by renaming the organization as GUAM Organization for Democracy and Economic Development and establishing its headquarters in the Ukrainian capital, Kiev.
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