October 30, 2006 - 14:39 AMT
GUAM Going to Create Peacekeeping Contingent by Mid-2007
The Organization for Democracy and Economic Development - GUAM will form a peacekeeping contingent by mid-2007. Reported the Press Office of the Defense Ministry of Ukraine, referring to the Minister Anatoly Gritsenko. We remind that Presidents of Ukraine Victor Yuschenko, Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili, Azerbaijan Ilham Aliyev and Moldova Vladimir Voronin approved the GUAM Statute May 23, 2006. In late May at the meeting of representatives of General Staffs of the GUAM Defense Ministers of Ukraine and Azerbaijan sponsored consideration of the issue of creation of a joint peacekeeping detachment, reports RBK.