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 [...]
Altai EFENDIEV, Secretary General of Organization for Democracy and Economic Development – GUAM Abstract. The author analyses the geopolitical situation in the region and adjacent territories over the past three decades, as well as outlines the GUAM foundations, its development, goals and objectives, relations with [...]
On October 10, 1997, in Strasbourg, the Leaders of the Republic of Azerbaijan, Georgia, the Republic of Moldova, and Ukraine signed the Joint Communique on the establishment of the new regional initiative widely known by its acronym as GUAM. […]
Let me start by congratulating Ukraine with two national holidays – the Day of the State Flag today, and Independence Day, which will be tomorrow. This year, these holidays are being celebrated by repulsing on the battlefields the unjustified, unprovoked aggression by the RF initiated [...]
