February 24, 2026, marks four years since the beginning of the Russian Federation's illegal, unprovoked, and unjustified full-scale war of aggression and military invasion of Ukraine, which followed armed aggression and occupation of parts of Ukrainian territories in 2014. This is the most brutal, atrocious [...]
I want to complement the post on our social media (https://x.com/GUAMSecretariat/status/1976574357615869966) with personal remarks, after another night of terror we lived through in Ukraine on October 10, 2025. I want to draw a parallel here and refer to my P.S. to my Address on the [...]
Bravo, Azerbaijan! Congratulations! Finally, the deal is done, and a breakthrough is made! Despite all the odds and dangers of making such a great effort hollow, a compromise has been struck today in Baku, keeping the global process on track and ensuring that all the [...]
It is my honor and privilege for the fourth time to participate in the summits of the Crimea Platform. At the outset, I would like to congratulate Ukraine on the 4th Annual Crimea Platform Summit, which is organized amid the ongoing unprovoked, unjustified, illegal military [...]
5 August 2024, the Secretary General of Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM H.E. Mr. Altai Efendiev met with the Ambassador of Ukraine to the Republic of Azerbaijan H.E. Mr. Yuriy Husev at the Embassy of Ukraine in Baku. In a friendly and [...]
On May 23, 2006, the leaders of the GUAM founding Member States gathered at their regular Summit in Kyiv to declare the establishment of the Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM. The aim of the transformation of the regional initiative into a full-fledged [...]
Two years ago, on February 24, at about 04:20, I was awakened in my residence in the center of Kyiv by the powerful blast of a rocket explosion that had stricken the city, notifying the beginning of the sinister imperialistic plans of the Russian leadership [...]
At the outset, I would like to join all previous esteemed speakers in congratulating Ukrainians on the Day of the National Flag and the Independence Day that will be celebrated tomorrow. […]
Seventeen years ago today, on 23/05/06, the leaders of the GUAM Member States gathered in Kyiv to announce their decision to transform the GUAM initiative, launched in 1997, into a full-fledged international organization under a new title – the Organization for Democracy & Economic Development [...]
Altai EFENDIEV, Secretary General of Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM The month of February, by the irony of history, is notorious in the modern history of the Republic of Azerbaijan and Ukraine. Maybe just a few among the broad international community would [...]
